Yup,
It's a problem and companies like ,Autodesk, MS and Esri make some money on
their software and have no real short term insensitive to liberate file formats
and program code.
I know there is some work being done on a plugin with MapInfo workspaces but I
am still looking for something for the Esri symbology. I guess these
things are more complicated as they are protected by copyright and need to be
reversed engineered which is not legal if there's a copyright in place (to my
knowledge).
Your best bet could be to look at the QGIS web server. This way, your
client have a web page with your QGIS project but don't need to install
QGIS. I guess that could bridge some of the gap as everybody has a web
browser on their computer.
Nicolas Cadieux M.Sc.
Les Entreprises Archéotec inc. 
8548, rue Saint-Denis Montréal H2P 2H2
Téléphone: 514.381.5112  Fax: 514.381.4995
www.archeotec.ca
On Nov 12, 2015 8:12 AM, "Chris House [via OSGeo.org]"
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi All, I've touched on this before in a previous email but I want
to get more feedback from this group. In my work my deliverables will
sometimes include project files and data. The data sharing is easy. However,
if the client uses ArcGIS how can I share things like symbology and project
files? I know this is a loaded question but I am running into some road blocks
where my clients will have to duplicate everything in ArcGIS. For many private
and government organizations simply installing QGIS is not an option for them.
So far the cop out answer of is well that's their problem for vendor lock.
That isn't fair to a lot of my clients who don't get a choice in what
software they use. Most of the time these decisions are made at corporate
level or at the highest governmental level. I want to be able to produce
quality work (which I can in QGIS) but I have to be able to share it when I
need to without the duplication of work. I understand that ArcGIS does not play
ball and so the burden to share is all on QGIS. This is a problem that needs
to be overcome by the QGIS community if they want to expand and become an equal
in places where corporations and government agencies make the software choices
at the highest levels. If somehow sharing projects and symbology (especially
symbologyy) is already possible I would love to know how to do it. V/R Chris
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