On Sat, 6 May 2006, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote:
heh. The funny thing is that we have been implicitly also helping Microsoft:
groups that cannot afford MSO and who may not have access to pirated versions
can use OOo and save as .doc, thus further sedimenting MS's "default"
existence.
But: like a light switching, they can go to ODF, whereas MSFT can't. :-)
[snip]
Actually, they sort of can:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20060504015438308&mode=nested
While OOo does a very good job with the multitude of undocumented MSO
formats, in some cases better than MSO itself, one trick might be to
encourage use of OpenDocument as the standard for interoperabilty even
among MSO users.
That would do two things. First it would prevent or at least hinder MS
use of gratitous changes to the file format to force new purchases. Many
running MSO 97 are happy to continue doing so for the forseeable future
and would prefer to decide themselves when and if to change. Second,
though basically the same thing, it would facilitate future movement to
OOo. If the internal working documents are already being created in OOo's
default format, the move should be much easier than if massive conversion
of legacy documents is needed.
-Lars
Lars Noodén ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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