OpenDocument Gains New Fans 233
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."
Re:I suggest (Score:2, Informative)
Re:I sure hope so (Score:3, Informative)
Try Neooffice/J - the native port. It works pretty well.
Re:I sure hope so (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Unfortunately... (Score:3, Informative)
cat office.doc | word2opendoc > opendoc.doc
Re:Personal Detriment Foundation (Score:2, Informative)
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More than one way to cat a skin... (Score:3, Informative)
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.