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The terrible injustice
by Daniel on Saturday 24/Sep/2005, @11:44

I am also concerned by the fact that OpenDocument's only representative on Windows is OpenOffice. Together with microsoft, I find it terribly unjust that we are sort of forced to use the only one available fully-featured application for creation of the OpenDocument documents.
I hope Microsoft will correct this terrible injustice by implementing OpenDocument support into its Office line.

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Re: The terrible injustice
by Mark on Sunday 25/Sep/2005, @06:28

You know, everyone seems to forget there are OTHER Windows office products than MS Office. WordPerfect for example. All that needs to happen is these other native Windows office products support the OpenDocument format and there will be more than one native product doing so. IBM could even get in there and tell their Lotus division to get the Lotus SmartSuite updated and support the format.

In addition, MS stating there's really only one codebase supporting OpenDocument is rather specious. After all, MS Office is the only product which supports all the features of the Office document formats. That would eliminate Office as a product, under Yate's argument.

Mark

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Re: The terrible injustice
by LaGrosse on Sunday 25/Sep/2005, @14:35

And Microsoft wanting to keep government as well as corporate entities locked into MSWord format is different,......... how?

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Re: The terrible injustice
by cm on Sunday 25/Sep/2005, @21:37

You may want to read the post you replied to once again.
Maybe after reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony

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Re: The terrible injustice
by LaGrosse on Sunday 25/Sep/2005, @14:35

And Microsoft wanting to keep government as well as corporate entities locked into MSWord format is different,......... how?

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Re: The terrible injustice
by David on Wednesday 28/Sep/2005, @08:24

Doesn't AbiWord (www.abiword.org) support the OpenDocument format? It's avaiable for MS-Windows as well.

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