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echo: osdebate
to: Rich
from: Don Hills
date: 2006-05-26 19:07:06
subject: Re: ODF alliance fearful

From: black.hole.4.spam{at}gmail.com (Don Hills)

In article , "Rich"  wrote:
>   If you mean the fear of the odf alliance, you sure can.   Did you
>notice the very interesting comment from their managing director "He
>added that OpenOffice.org was not initially optimised for ODF, but will
>be in the future."  Isn't odf the native format of openoffice?  If it's
>not optimized for its native format, what is it optimized for?

Was that FUD, or were you trying to make a joke? Regardless, the answer to
your question is: Nothing, at the moment. It will be optimised for ODF in
the future. It makes perfect sense once you go and find out what the real
story is - much easier to do with open standards than proprietary
standards.

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Don Hills    (dmhills at attglobaldotnet)     Wellington, New Zealand
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