Explaining Open Standards email attachements

Fabian Keil freebsd-listen at fabiankeil.de
Thu Apr 1 17:34:07 UTC 2010


Matthias Kirschner <mk at fsfe.org> wrote:

> * Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen at fabiankeil.de> [2010-03-30 19:59:00 +0200]:
> 
> > For example I'm currently not aware of a proper ODF reader I'd
> > want to install on systems I care about, in fact I'm not even aware
> > of something similar to antiword, which mostly works to get the
> > information I care about out of doc files, has a reasonable list
> > of dependencies, doesn't take ages to compile and is easy enough
> > to audit and use.
> 
> For e-mail I use 
> 
>   odt2txt - simple converter from OpenDocument Text to plain text
> 
> it works quite well. 

Interesting, thanks. I'll look into it as soon as I receive
the first ODT file whose content I care about ...

> > > Organisations and Software supporting Open Standards
> > > 
> > >     * OpenOffice.org
> > >     * VideoLan, the project making VLC
> > 
> > Given that the page is about email attachments I don't
> > think VLC should be mentioned here.
> 
> What about Ogg Vorbis audio files? 

I don't think they belong into attachments. Obviously I don't
mind getting links to them, though.

Fabian
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