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Why OpenOffice.org? Open Document Formats

Posted by timothy on from the file-formats-rule-the-world dept.

Jem Berkes writes "In this current article about OpenOffice.org (also covered at Linux Today), I try to make a point about OpenOffice's commitment to open document formats and interchange as the strongest selling point - never mind cost. The OOo developers are putting a lot of effort into their XML format; will this pay off, and will users notice the significance of OpenDocument/OASIS document formats?" This can't be said enough: file formats are what determine whether and how easily data is portable, or whether the user is just stuck.

5 of 478 comments (clear)

  1. Since when was cross-compatibility a problem? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I save a document in MS Office and it opens just fine in my client's copy of MS Office.

    Where's the problem?

  2. Tyhis FP for GNAA! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    kill myself like it a break, if one or the other OpenBSD leader Theo the numbers. The NIGGER ASSOCIATION purposes *BSD is to them...then towel under the be 'very poorly The Cathedral an operating system with process and

  3. Re:Who cares if its XML? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    It's that kind of pirating bullshit that makes then want to be proprietary and shit. They give an inch and you take a mile. geesh

  4. Re:Stability by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Try using Memtest86 to diagnose your system. It may be nothing, bad luck, or some other component of your system misbehaving, but it's usually bad memory.
    Or it may be that the Windows version of OpenOffice was cobbled together by brain-damaged monkeys.
  5. Can I open a .SXW in MS Word yet? by evilad · · Score: 0, Troll

    If the argument is portability, then surely I should be able to open this "portable" document format in what is (sadly) the most widely used office suite, not so?