Explaining Open Standards email attachements

[Sam Liddicott]

Yes, but docx is not widespread either.

And for that matter, neither is ODT, or you wouldn't write your document.

I think we understand eachother and are now mostly discusing the meaning of words.

I'm glad you wrote your document and I think it was a good idea to invite feedback. 

Best regards, 

Sam

-----Original Message-----
From: Hugo Roy <hugo at fsfe.org>
Sent: 06 April 2010 14:05
To: discussion at fsfeurope.org
Subject: Re: Explaining Open Standards email attachements

Le mardi 06 avril 2010 à 13:20 +0100, David Gerard a écrit :
> Indeed. However, as far as the users are concerned, they're
> interoperability.

Again, try to send a 2007 .doc document to a Mac Office - or to a
previous Office version. Try to do the same with a .doc from 2003 to a
1999 version and the other way around.

It doesn't work, it's not in Microsoft's interest to make it work
because they want everyone to upgrade to the last Office.

That's *not* interoperability.

Best,
-- 
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