[AktiviX-discuss] good news?

[Charlie Harvey]

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On 23/05/08 00:28, ana typed:
> I was looking for the "open document format" and always fell for it - .odf 
> is not the now closs-open-platform supported format .odt. it looks like 
> another microsoft- only-openable format. 
> 
> correct me if i'm wrong ...
> 
> ana

Hey ana,

Open Document Format (OASIS Open Document Format for Office Application)
is publicly-documented format used by OpenOffice. See:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=office

M$ have implemented a thing called Office Open XML as the default format
for new versions of word. They've also managed (somehow) to get OOXML
format accepted by the ISO as a standard document format despite it not
being vendor-neutral, compliant with existing standards (date formats,
colour codes etc.), or guaranteed to be supported for any length of
time. More at:
http://www.fsfeurope.org/documents/msooxml-questions.en.html

Oh and there's also ODA (Open Document Architecture). See:
http://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-T.411/en

Cheers,
Charlie
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