Ryan Jendoubi wrote: > > On 16/04/11 07:09, aqualung wrote: >> [...] >> It could be risky for them to reveal much while the situation >> is in flux. At the same time there are hundreds of thousands of users who >> are probably quite anxious to find out what's in the cards for their >> preferred office software. > > I thought ODF was meant to free people from software lock-in? ;-) > > Well, it does. If Microsoft dies tomorrow, billions of Word and Excel files are left in limbo. In theory, the proprietary file format could be buried with the company.
If both LibreOffice and OpenOffice die, it will be easy for a successor to pick up where they left off... in the interim, however, there would be some anxiety so let's hope this never happens. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Ellison-s-Oracle-washes-hands-of-OpenOffice-tp2826546p2827537.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
