Re: [tlug] Stand Up for OpenOffice!!

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

Jean-Christophe Helary writes:

 > Well, the point being that there are already quite a few places that  
 > have already decided to move to the only ISO/ODF fully supporting  
 > application.

Sure.  One of the points I'm interested in investigating is the extent
to which it's a top-down thing (the Japanese case clearly is, and it
would seem the same for the French case).  That won't fly in a
university setting, really.  Academic freedom and all that.

 > I think a lot of places that are required to adopt ISO practices
 > will have to move to ODF and thus to OOo in the middle term. ODF is
 > still young as an ISO standard (March)

Yeah, and it will have a "little" brother this coming March, most
likely, called "ISO OOXML".  So Microsoft will have its own open
document format with ISO sanction.  We can hope it goes the way of OSI
:-).