Re: [Fsfe-uk] Open Formats workgroup progress report

[Ian Lynch]

On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 08:14, Marc Eberhard wrote:

> Also as you mention office products, I wouldn't advertise PDF as a
> replacement for Word documents as PDF is (for most people) not editable. I'd
> rather compare proprietary office products with OpenOffice. The OpenOffice
> format is well documented and can be supported by everyone. I would sell
> this format as the alternative, not plain text, RTF or PDF.

Agreed. As a longer term replacement its far more sensible because of
its openness and XML relationship. In general the compressed document
format is also more efficient than raw .doc etc. There is a chicken and
egg situation in establishing any new standard where one is entrenched
but the first part of doing that is to educate people.

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Ian Lynch <address@hidden>
ZMS Ltd