On 2010-03-09 11:58 AM, James Knott wrote: > Tanstaafl wrote: >> On 2010-03-07 2:50 AM, Lars Nooden wrote: >>> Despite earlier campaigns of disinformation, ODF and >>> OpenOffice.org are separate. OpenOffice.org is a program, with >>> development led by Sun/Oracle. ODF is a file format, with >>> development led by OASIS which has around 600 businesses, >>> government agencies, and universities taking part. Some two dozen >>> take an active lead in the development of OpenDocument.
>> Yes, but other applications ODF support is often *very* different >> from Openoffice.org's... meaning, the documents do *not* look the >> same. >> >> As much as like the idea of ODF, it has not even come close to >> achieving true cross-application compatibility yet. > Have you ever opened Word documents in other applications such as OOo > or Word Perfect? Ever notice it doesn't look the same? This is due > to differences in applications, not the file format. I seem to recall > that it's even an issue between different versions of Word. True enough, but what does that have to do with anything? -- Charles --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
