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OpenDocument Gains New Fans
An anonymous reader writes "The OpenDocument format is gathering steam, as several influential companies seek an alternative to Microsoft Office." From the article: "The ODF Summit brought together representatives from a handful of industry groups and from at least 13 technology companies, including Oracle, Google and Novell. That stepped-up commitment from major companies comes amid signs that states are considering getting behind OpenDocument. James Gallt, the associate director for the National Association of State Chief Information Officers, said Wednesday that there are a number of state agencies are exploring the use of the document format standard."
That's right. Viva la ASCII! ;-)
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Might be time to go through the trouble of installing X11...
Try Neooffice/J - the native port. It works pretty well.
Maybe cos them damn reps never saw the utility of doing this :
cat office.doc | word2opendoc > opendoc.doc
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At work I managed to tweak the msi for Acrobat 7 a bit to remove the useless plugins (eg: seach toolbar etc) and deployed that, used less ram and loads up a hell of a lot quicker. A quick google search should help you.
'let slip the dogs of war'
Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it. --Mark Twain
And I wouldn't call MS's claim that they'd have to open-source MS-Word to implement ODF FUD. It's an outright lie .
Even more than that, OpenOffice is LGPL, which means that a company could compile in proprietary extensions to OpenOffice, (like SUN does to make StarOffice), and not have to open-source their extensions -- an opportunity that a small company would never have with Microsoft Office.
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