The Foundation [OpenDocument Foundation] is offering ODF support for Microsoft Office because “this isn’t about ‘Windows’ or MS Office. It’s about people, business units, existing workflows and business processes, and vested legacy information systems begging to be connected, coordinated, and re-engineered to reach new levels of productivity and service. It’s also about the extraordinary value of ODF and its importance to the next generation of collaborative computing,” said Edwards.
Well, if not Microsoft, its the OpenDocument foundation itself adding support to OpenDocument formats in Microsoft Office. This could bring down the rate at which businesses and governments are migrating to OpenOffice.org, but at the same time could rapidly increase adaptability of the OpenDocument format.
I am currently not quite clear about the license but I would definitely love to see it under GPL. Microsoft should not be able to bundle it with it’s stupid Office suite.
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