----- Original Message ---- > From: Cocoy Dayao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Technical Discussion List > <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, April 2, 2008 19:42:47 > Subject: Re: [plug] OOXML is now an ISO Standard (Phils also voted in favor) > > i have questions. > > ooxml is now an iso standard and odf is the same? correct? > > doesn't it mean therefore that OpenOffice, Google Docs, iWork and > everybody else now can now parse Microsoft Office formats much better?
No. OOXML is different from the propriety MS Office formats. > That OO and the rest have no excuse anymore not to be able to render > properly data from .doc, xls, .ppt to say their own native file formats? OOo already do this most of the time for .doc and .xl?. > and if say I (or anybody else for that matter) would like to write an > App that reads/writes MSOffice format... i can now do so without any > problem or worry the big bad wolf from redmond would rain holy hell on > my house because they've has "opened" the standard up. that the > landscape is now fair game for every developer in the world. > > is this correct? Probably. But then again, MS is notorious for implementing their own version of the "standards". --- mike t. _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
