XimianDesktop2 non-free format tendencies

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 07:32:38PM +0200, Christian Surchi wrote:
> 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.

Ah, sorry, forgot about this.

> > > Which proprietary format?
> > 
> > Picky today?
I missed adding a simly on this line. :)

> > 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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