Christopher W. Ryan wrote:
I thought that part of the philosophy of OOo was permanent access to one's data. That is, files created in any version of OpenOffice.org would always be useable by any version of OOo. This was to set it apart from MS Office, who's frequent changes of file format are much-derided as forcing people into an unending cycle of involuntary upgrades. This is also one of the advantages that I have often touted to prospective users.
If I understand the below comments accurately, once 2.0 final is released, if it continues to use a different file format, then if any user sends me a 2.0 version file, I would either have to abandon hopes of opening that file, or I would have to upgrade my 1.1.x to 2.0. Which maybe I wouldn't want to do.
Do I misunderstand the philosophy and prior claims of OOo?
OOo2 Beta still allows "Save As" in the older format as well as the ability to open the older format.
So just like MSOffice you may need to save in the older format for some users, although one would hope they would upgrade faitlr soon - it is still free of course.
Brian
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