OpenDocument Now Published ISO Standard

bobibobi writes "After months of revisions, OpenDocument receives status of a full published standard. The various stages of a standard's "stage code are also online." The OpenDocument standard has been developed by a variety of organizations and is publicly accessible. This means it can be implemented into any system, be it free software/open source or a closed proprietary product, without royalties.

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Can I load it in Word?

[BadAnalogyGuy]

Salmon spend their whole life swimming in the ocean eating so that they grow strong and healthy so that when they return to their spawning pools they have enough energy to spread their milt before sinking to the creekbed, exhausted and dead. They get so beaten up by the force of the water which flows backwards towards the ocean that it seems almost pointless for them to make the trek all the way back to the waters of their birth. But they do this, despite having 90% of the OS market running Microsoft applications and with most application users using Microsoft Word to draft their documents. The battle to swim upstream to mate and die is one that must be fought. The survival of the wild salmon stock depends on these brave fish to face the torrents and rapids and emerge beaten and worn in the quiet streams of the Pacific Northwest.

Re:Can I load it in Word?

[EvilRyry]

You have a very accurate username!

Re:Hmmm

[Anonymous Coward]

MartinJW: Surely it has no impact on how and where the OD format can be used.

Summary: This means it can be implemented into any system, be it free software/open source or a closed proprietary product, without royalties.

Yeah, I really wish they would have spelled it out for us...

Bah, use TeX :-)

[tomstdenis]

Real layout/presentation junkies use TeX. The original "Open Document Format."

Tom

Re:Cool... now make it part of another standard

[Neil Watson]

ISO is already used for dirty tricks like keeping consultants employed.

The good thing about standards bodies:

[nietsch]

There are so many to choose from: If ISO has been taken, then you can always go to ecma, IEEE or whichever org is willing to take your money to make it a 'standard'. Other people suggest that if one monopolist is the only one to implement it, it is not a real standard (me for instance) .