Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (46 mails)

[Thomas Adam <thomas_adam16@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Ian Lynch <ian.lynch@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 15:06 +0100, Adrian Wells wrote:
> > > ignore, laugh and fight stages. The use of Open Standards is certainly
> a
> > > high profile theme with BECTA these days but there is massive inertia
> in
> > > the system. Even with committed people now its going to take years,
> > 
> > How high profile?  
> 
> Director level interested enough to come specifically to meetings and to
> start organising meetings to learn more. New CEO is being appointed so
> that could have an unpredictable effect.
> 
> > MS-Office is/will(?) purportedly be using the open
> > standard
> 
> MSO will use Microsofts claimed open standard. AFAIK there are no plans
> for MSO to support ODF which is currently going through the ISO process.

Bah.  Typical.  Oh well.  Here's to hoping.  The current filters in OO aren't
too bad, for most things.

(By the way, you cited that incorrectly -- that was *my* comment, and not
Adrian's, which is what the current attribution erroneously shows).

-- Thomas Adam


		
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