Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On 13-Apr-08, at 8:20 PM, Rony wrote:
First, stop using closed data formats. Use Open Document fornats for Writer, Spreadsheet and Presentation. Send your files as pdf to those who use closed softwares.
the problem is that ISO now says that OOXML is an (open?) standard
Any links to the same?
links? you *are* on planet earth aren't you? Anyway, if you are just visiting, the International Standards Organisation on this planet has just blessed OOXML as *the* open standard.
So there must be some link to this information that OOXML is an 'open' format, somewhere on planet earth?
This is what the ISO site says.
http://www.iso.org/iso/pressrelease.htm?refid=Ref1123 There is no mention of it being an open format.
Now this is the ISO page for ODF.
http://www.iso.org/iso/pressrelease.htm?refid=Ref1004
This is what it says for the Open Document Format.
"Organizations and individuals that store their data in the open format avoid being locked in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendor_lock-in to a single software vendor, leaving them free to switch software if their current vendor goes out-of-business, raises its prices, changes its software, or alters its licensing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_license terms."
So just go on using the ODF formats. Forget OOXML.