Re: Open Office file formats (Oasis-open) and gnumeric

[Uri David Akavia <uridavid netvision net il>]

Sorry, forgot to post to the list

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• From: Uri David Akavia <uridavid netvision net il>
• To: Russell McOrmond <russell flora ca>
• Subject: Re: Open Office file formats (Oasis-open) and gnumeric
• Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 21:16:39 +0200

Just a comment from a user. If I'm wrong please correct me.

If not OASIS, then how do we move this
critical issue forward?  It will be very important to getting FLOSS office
productivity suites into larger corporate and government clients. 
  While AbiWord and GIMP have MS Windows versions, I don't believe that
GNUmeric or any of the other GNOME office or KOffice tools are ported to
MS Windows.

Is the issue you're talking about promoting free software? Free software
can be promoted by cost, interportability.
Open standards is a great advantage - However, I don't think that the
different office suites need to agree on an identical file format.
Gnumeric file format is an open standard - it is not very widespread,
but it is open and all gnumeric files use this standard.
Agreeing on differnet ways of embedding, communicating between
processes, clipboard format and so forth is much more important and more
useful, as I understand it.

Uri David Akavia

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