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Re: RTF - proprietary or open?



On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 02:58:17PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> John Hasler wrote in Article <[🔎] 87odj4vu77.fsf@toncho.dhh.gt.org> posted to
> gmane.linux.debian.user:
> 
> > Alan Ianson writes:
> >> I believe kword supports ODF now and I hope this will continue to be the
> >> case with koffice and other word processing applications like abiword in
> >> the future.
> > 
> > The problem is that most Microsoft Windows users cannot deal with ODF.
> > That doesn't matter to me but to some people it is critical.
> 
> I was unaware that openoffice.org was not freely available in win32 binary
> form.
> 
That depends on your definition of "available."  If the person receiving
your document is on dialup and not in a position to download the 100+ MB
OOo or is otherwise not sufficiently proficient to install software,
then you are basically left with "default" windows tools, which are
wordpad, and occasionally works or word.

Regards,

-Roberto
-- 
Roberto C. Sánchez
http://people.connexer.com/~roberto
http://www.connexer.com

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