Le 02/04/2010 05:51, Theo Schmidt a écrit : > With DOCX I'm uncertain what do do now that OpenOffice can open these files. > When somebody sends me one I somtimes pretend I still can't open it and ask > for > a PDF, RTF or even (Horror!) DOC. I generally explain that DOCX is a bad idea > because the majority of people can't open it, i.e. everybody who hasn't got an > up-to-date program or plugin. I expect this actually includes more > Windows-users > than Linux-users.
The point in docX is that actually OpenOffice (>3.x) users can perfectly handle them (at least for quite simple documents that represent, say, 99% of the production) whereas users of somewhat old versons of MS Office cannot read them. At this peculiar time, it's a very good help making users migrate or at least install OpenOffice :-) So despite the fact tha docX *is a bad idea*, it's inherent lack of backward compatibility helps a lot Free Software in some cases :-))) Michel Roche _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
