Oron Peled wrote:
On Wednesday, 5 בOctober 2005 12:54, Uri Even-Chen wrote:
I think there should be a standard for office file formats, and the
standard should not be owned by MS.
There is. It is called OpenDocument (by OASIS). Tzafrir already
pointed you to the Massachusetts decision to use it. It is
supported by OpenOffice (2.0 and 1.1.5), Koffice and is making
its way into Abiword and Gnumeric.
OK, but we can't actually use the standard as long as the majority of
people can't read it. And they can't read it because they use MS
Office. You can't send a non-MS-Office-compatible files to such people.
It will not work. They will not install Open Office because of you
(at least in most cases, if they are not geeks).
You can keep saying there is no solution (because it's not
100% perfect) and stay with your current options (which are
far from perfect) or switch once and for all (like most people
here have done long ago).
Staying with MS products while whining about being locked to
their solutions is.... (i'll let you choose your own term for this).
I have to stay compatible with the people I communicate with. Currently
the most convenient way is by using MS Office. I also have Open Office
on my computer, but I hardly use it at all. Open Office is far from
perfect.
Best Regards,
Uri Even-Chen
Speedy Net
Raanana, Israel.
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone: +972-9-7715013
Website: www.uri.co.il
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