XimianDesktop2 non-free format tendencies

[Christian Surchi]

On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 07:29:30PM +0200, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> http://lwn.net/Articles/34940/
> 	They've also tweaked OOo to save files in Microsoft Office
> 	formats by default, rather than the standard OOo formats.

Thanks for the excerpt. That URL requires subscriction.
 
> > Which proprietary format?
> 
> Picky today?
> 
> You are right in a way, Openoffice does save the file and can read it.
> Thus the subset of the microsoft formats that Openoffice can write
> and read is a format for that we have a Free Software implementation for.
> However microsoft still controls that formats, the subset will
> not be the same subset that the various products of microsoft support.
> And using a format like this is a big signal.

I couldn't understand without the details above. Thanks. :-)

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