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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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