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On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, Rick wrote:
Unfortunately, OOXML is neither from Open Office, nor open in any real sense
of the word. It's proprietary with a thin veneer of openness to allow MS to
continue their attempts of monopolizing document standards. Use of OOXML
(i.e., translators, etc...) require licensing from MS.
An article:
http://openstack.blogspot.com/2007/02/three-stages-of-xml-migration-and.html
Yikes. I thought Microsoft was just trying to have more authority when it
came to the standard, but I guess it's a lot more than that. It sounds
like the ODf people really have to develop software for converting to ODf
from other formats.
Mike
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