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No Doubt

I've been on the OpenOffice.org mailing lists for almost 2 years. And throughout that time, they've been going on and on about this new open standard. What they fail to understand even after more than a year of planning is, nobody supports this format. Nobody. Not even OpenOffice.org.

It *will* support it whenever 2.0 comes out (it should have been released several months ago), but it will then be the only one. Not even AbiWord will support this new "open standard". KOffice has said that they might. But that's it. Two open source office suites. One of which is Linux only, and the other might as well be.

StarOffice will support it, of course, but it's the same thing as OOo, so I'm only stating the obvious.

With MS's strangle hold on the defacto coorporate standards of file types (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc.), there is no way they'll ever support this OpenOffice.org "standard".

it's much ado about nothing - kinda like Desktop Linux.

Posted by: DarthRansid   Posted on: 05/24/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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