Alan Lord (News) wrote: ...
Depending on one vendor's closed formats (and docx is not IS/IEC29500) is a sure way to never to achieve your [admirable] objective. Better is to send *your* contacts material in a really open format, such as ODF, and make companies like Microsoft implement these standards properly.
I sort of agree. Except that to many lay people in the 'real world' MS /is/ the standard, even to the extent that 'Word' is synonymous with 'word processor' and 'Excel' with 'spreadsheet program'. People's /perception/ is that if you don't send what /they/ see as standard, then it's a problem /you/ have caused. No, I don't like it, but I can't see a quick way round it. And it's not helped by academia here - at least one university demands essays be submitted in /Word/ format(*): nothing else allowed, not even PDF, so thank goodness OOo is up to the mark here!
But of course their shareholders won't like that much.
Of course not. But that mustn't be allowed to justify unethical business practices.
(*) No, they don't say which one :-) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
