On Tuesday 08 March 2005 11:34 pm, Ian Lynch wrote: > If there is to be any standard data format that will displace .doc for > E-mail attachments it will be the Open Document Format of OASIS and OOo. > In principle, the more FLOSS apps that adopt it and support it the more > likley it will become accepted. If AbiWord maintains its own format its > very unlikely that anyone other than Abiword users will know or care > what it is. We need to put energy into battles we can win.
http://gnomedesktop.org/node/2160#comment-35567 Abiword can import and export OASIS - I would recommend all AbiWord users start using it, if not for storing their documents on their machines, at least for transfer of documents. If OASIS could become a de facto standard interchange format as well as a well-defined standard, document interchange would surely become less hassle-bound. -- Martyn Ranyard _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
