In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Mark Kent
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wrote
on Wed, 3 Jan 2007 16:52:58 +0000
<ak3t64-hgb.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> begin oe_protect.scr
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Dashboard: Office, OpenOffice Ready To Talk
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>>| Novell plans to release open-source interoperability technology
>>| between the OpenOffice.org productivity suite and Microsoft Office 2007.
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>> http://www.techweb.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196603901
>
> "interoperability technology" - wow. The work Microsoft will go to in
> order to maintain a proprietary format is amazing. Sorry,
> Microsoft/Novell.
>
It's arguably worth noting that there are probably millions
of documents using that slightly klunky proprietary format;
converting them all would incur significant downtime,
presumably.
If nothing else, Microsoft could document the format so
that freelance FOSS developers can guarantee conversion
accuracy -- although at this point it's been largely
cracked anyway; witness for example the ability for
OpenOffice to read .DOC files directly, or at least
using a non-Microsoft reader.
In its own way, Microsoft is a victim of its own success.
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