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Re: ODF and binary data--why do you ignore it, Roy?

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On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:16:59 +0100,
 Hadron <hadronquark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Linonut <linonut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> * Tim Smith peremptorily fired off this memo:
>>
>>> In article <UYidnUFlnevJhCPanZ2dnUVZ_gidnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>>>  alt <spamtrap@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Why should the document format support all of Microsoft's (undocumented) 
>>>> legacy crap? Shouldn't that be the job of the application?
>>>
>>> The application needs to be able to save information about that legacy 
>>> "crap", hence there is a need for some way to do that in the document 
>>> format.
>>
>> Where's the 'need' for that?  You want to have access to all features of
>> those old documents?  Keep an old copy of the proprietary operating
>> system and proprietary Word processor around.
>
> LOL. I am not sure if it is stupidity or naivety on your part. Did it
> never cross your mind that you need to access the contents on an
> uptodate OS? For *obvious* reasons I won't even bother to go into.
>

makes no sense. We are discussing document formats, not the OS. Are you
saying that the MS document formats rely on the OS for something? 


>>
>> What's that you say?  You're worried about those items eventually being
>> unusable?  Scan or convert the legacy document to PDF, already an ISO
>> standard, and readable by open-source software.
>
> Snigger. Clueless. Why would they want to do anything of the sort?

So they can avoid lock in. Which is pretty much the whole frigging point
to a multiple vendor format. 

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