[Opensource] OpenOffice saving in XP

[Jim Maunder]

I suspect that Bill might be interested in this too.

However, just at the mo I can't think of a precedent. In some ways 
there is some advantage to 'market leaders' in competing products 
being able to read/write 'industry standard' file formats.

I can't imagine Bill, even with all the resources at his disposal, 
would want to stage a legal battle to prevent Open Office, 
WordPerfect, StarOffice, Abiword and the hundreds of other office 
suites and word processing progs from using MS Office file formats, 
which are, after all, considered as standard file formats. I think it 
is a needless worry.

But see here: http://web.mit.edu/randy/www/words.html

rgds
Jim


At 02:17 PM 01/05/2007, you wrote:
>I want to be fully informed of the implications of moving the school 
>over to open file formats via a shift to Open Office.
>If we move to Open Office and odt files etc, only to find that it 
>can no longer support MS docs down the track then I want to know.

...

>victor rajewski wrote:
>>... If push were to come
>>to shove, worst case would be that openoffice would officially cease
>>to support MS office files. There would still be unofficial support as
>>the source is out there. Your ODF files would be safe.

...


>>On 5/1/07, Cameron Bell <bell.cameron.p at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:
>>>Just wondering, does Open Offices' ability to save as XP/2000  etc
>>>contravene any patent laws etc that could be enforced by MS down the track?
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