On Thursday 15 December 2005 10:39, Claus Agerskov wrote:
> In the eWeek.com news article "Sun Pushes for Greater Adoption of
> OpenDocument Format":
>
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1901966,00.asp
>
> The following is written:
>
> "The ODF file format is also designed to be compatible with Microsoft
> Office, as the technical committee working on this knew it was going to
> be used to import and export a lot of Microsoft Office documents,
> Phipps said, adding that he did not believe the format would end up as
> an archival format."
>
> What is the reason that OpenDocument would not be used as an archival
> format. Isn't this one of the biggest pros for OpenDocument that I will
> always be readable - even hundreds of years from now.
Yes this is completely the wrong way round IMHO.
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David Faure, , sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).
