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?
The last time this was discussed, it was stated that there is supposed to be an upgrade/patch/add-on for 1.1.4 (at least) to handle the 2.0 format.
The 2.0 format was developed by the OASIS consortium, based on the 1.0 format, and is expressly designed to be married a little less closely to the messy innards of OOo, so that it can be easily used by other software. (In other words, there is some intent and hope that the OOo 2.0 format may become a replacement for RTF.) I seem to recall hearing that there is already at least one other package supporting it.
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John W. Kennedy
"Give up vows and dogmas, and fixed things, and you may grow like That. ...you may come to think a blow bad, because it hurts, and not because it humiliates. You may come to think murder wrong, because it is violent, and not because it is unjust."
-- G. K. Chesterton. "The Ball and the Cross"
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