Am 03.01.2013 22:12, schrieb Doug:
On 01/03/2013 12:11 PM, Hans Witvliet wrote:
I'll guess that the biggest problem is that some stick-in-the-mud people consider any microsoft products as "defacto industry standard" and are unwilling to even try something else....
Whether you or the software devs like it or not, Miocrosoft Word and Excel *are* the defacto industry standards, and anyone who down't follow those standards is just out of luck!
That is fortunately nonsense these days. Big companies have to follow public standards. Otherwise their products would become a no go for many industries, certainly for public authorities, which appears not unrelated within this thread.
This, btw, is not the only industry standard, and others don't seem to draw such fire--think of pdf, mp3, dwg, etc.
PDF and MP3 a public standards by approved bodies. Exel and Word are merly programs. Anyone is free to use alternative programs to produce standard conformant PDF or ODF documents. Most office suites have import and export filters for compatibility with ancient proprietary formats. Those proprietary formats are often considered a pain to use even with original authoring software. kind regards Kai-Uwe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org