Re: [libreoffice-users] Defending ODF against OOXML in the UK

2014-02-23 Thread e-letter
On 23/02/2014, Alexander Wilms f.alexander.wi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, I already posted this on the LibreOffice Google+ and Facebook pages, but there are probably quite a few people subscibed to this list who are not following either one. Despite the self-generated hype, not every

Re: [libreoffice-users] Defending ODF against OOXML in the UK

2014-02-23 Thread Stephan Weinberger
On Sun, 23 Feb 2014 01:12:25 +0100, Alexander Wilms wrote If you think that truly open standards are a better solution than OOXML, then it'd be beneficial if you registered on the standards.data.gov.uk page and commented. In 3 days, comments will be closed. Maybe i'm not going to make

Re: [libreoffice-users] Defending ODF against OOXML in the UK

2014-02-23 Thread James Knott
Stephan Weinberger wrote: Maybe i'm not going to make friends, but OOXML strict actually *is* an open standard. The real problem is, that MS-Office until 2013 was not capable of creating strict files, but wrote OOXML transitional instead (which may - and as a matter of fact always did -

Re: [libreoffice-users] Defending ODF against OOXML in the UK

2014-02-23 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) The strict vs transitional issue really doesn't bode well for future implementations of the OOXML format. Who would there be to notice when MS's implementation again deviates from strict? Is anyone or any organisation sufficiently well-versed in the immensely wordy ISO standard for OOXML

[libreoffice-users] Defending ODF against OOXML in the UK

2014-02-22 Thread Alexander Wilms
Hi everyone, I already posted this on the LibreOffice Google+ and Facebook pages, but there are probably quite a few people subscibed to this list who are not following either one. The UK government plans to move to open standards like ODF and HTML and apparently Microsoft didn't know that