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Re: [cc-licenses] [ot] opendocument

From: Daniel Carrera <daniel.carrera AT zmsl.com>
To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] [ot] opendocument
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 21:21:31 +0000

Antoine wrote:

Actually, for non graphically heavy documents, RTF is certainly the best
choice for interoperability.

But there isn't a single version of RTF, and RTF is controlled by Microsoft. It's certainly better than word, but it's not fantastic.

ODT is only supported by a few very recent office suites, perhaps only
OOO 2.0

OOo and KOffice both support it, and another 20 applications (not all office suites) are either supporting it or working towards it.

http://opendocumentfellowship.org/Applications/HomePage

Another note on RTF (and .doc) is that both are going to become obsolete. Everyone, including Microsoft, is moving to XML. The competition in the future will be between OpenDocument and Microsoft's propietary XML (which will cause much stronger lock-in than .doc). Promoting OpenDocument now is a good strategy.

Cheers,
Daniel.
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