Re: FYI: KOffice will switch to OpenOffice.org file format

From: Leonard Rosenthol (leonardr@lazerware.com)
Date: Thu Sep 18 2003 - 10:19:21 EDT

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    At 9:10 AM +0200 9/18/03, Hubert Figuiere wrote:
    >Sorry to appear to be nitpicky, but RTF ain't open. RTF is completely
    >tied to Microsoft goodwillingness.
    >Sure, it is documented. But if it were open, there would an open process
    >to make it evolve. Currently Microsoft make it only evolves to follow
    >MS-Word.

            And the OO format doesn't have the same issues - evolving for
    OO's needs and purpose. The only difference is that OO is
    XML-based, so it's easy to add your own stuff w/o breaking other
    parsers.

    LDR 

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