from: openoffice.org newsletter Volume 01 - Issue 9 - 03/2004 ================================================== How will Office 2003 DRM impact interoperability ================================================== "In the near future, will we be able to open and access files from our coworkers, our clients, or our students?" ... "Last October, OpenOffice.org released the 1.1 version of its office productivity suite." ... "Roughly a month later, Microsoft released Office 2003. This product was freshly-infused with digital rights management (DRM) technologies, dubbed "information rights management" by Microsoft, designed to secure and restrict access to documents as needed. Documents employing DRM created in Office 2003 may well only be accessible via Office 2003. More recently, Microsoft filed for numerous patent applications in New Zealand and Europe, covering the interoperability of XML-based word processing documents.
What do these tactics mean for interoperability between current and pending versions of Microsoft Office and competing products such as OpenOffice.org and StarOffice?" ================================================= Linux-Azur : http://www.linux-azur.org Désinscriptions: http://www.linux-azur.org/liste.php3 **** Pas de message au format HTML, SVP ****
