Re: [Planner Dev] M$ Orifice Open XML formats

[Francisco Moraes <fmoraes nc rr com>]

Kurt Maute wrote:

> Was wondering if anyone else has noticed the recent announcement from
> Microsoft - that they'll be converting their standard M$ Orifice
> document formats to a royalty free open xml format.  Linkage:
> http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/default.mspx
>
> Not only will this become the new default format for Word, Excel, &
> Powerpoint, but MS said they'd offer updates for Orifice 2000 and above
> to give them forward compatibility with the new format.
>
> First, for the greater Linux community I think its great news given the
> relative ease at which developers will be able to create import/export
> plugins or otherwise integrate with them.
>
> Second, though I haven't seen any annoucement pertaining to this, but I
> think its likely that Project will follow suit, given the fact that it
> already supports its own xml format, and its historical close
> relationship to the Office suite.
>  
I thought there were some questions whether their proposed license would 
be compatible with GPL.

Francisco