The world does not need a "conversion nightmare": a standard office file format already exists

Posted by Sander_Marechal on Jan 23, 2008 7:16 PM EDT
Free Software Magazine; By Tony Mobily 		Mail this story
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This is an editorial about file conversions. It starts with a story about Free Software Magazine and our struggle with article formats, and continues explaining why the world needs to get rid of Office Open XML, which could create more problems than the Microsoft monopoly itself. What I experienced with Free Software Magazine while converting (which, admittedly, wasn’t really that big a deal) would be nothing compared to what the whole world will have to deal with if OOXML became “the” file format “normally” used to exchange office documents.

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Same old mess, adage remains true vainrveenr 0 799 Jan 24, 2008 8:31 AM

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