Re: [Fsfe-uk] Health Service departments unable to read AbiWord attachments

[Joran_H]

On Tuesday 08 March 2005 11:34 pm, Ian Lynch wrote:
> If there is to be any standard data format that will displace .doc for
> E-mail attachments it will be the Open Document Format of OASIS and OOo.
> In principle, the more FLOSS apps that adopt it and support it the more
> likley it will become accepted. If AbiWord maintains its own format its
> very unlikely that anyone other than Abiword users will know or care
> what it is. We need to put energy into battles we can win.

http://gnomedesktop.org/node/2160#comment-35567

Abiword can import and export OASIS - I would recommend all AbiWord users 
start using it, if not for storing their documents on their machines, at 
least for transfer of documents.  If OASIS could become a de facto standard 
interchange format as well as a well-defined standard, document interchange 
would surely become less hassle-bound.

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Martyn Ranyard