Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 10:51:59 -0400 From: "Michael W. Holdeman" <lists@ptfd.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IE in FreeBSD? Message-ID: <200509201052.00431.lists@ptfd.org> In-Reply-To: <20050920171953.32974328@localhost> References: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNKEFMFCAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> <200509201524.38564.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> <20050920171953.32974328@localhost>
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On Tuesday 20 September 2005 11:19 am, jonas wrote: > hi! > > On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 15:24:38 +0100 > > RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> wrote: > > Because it's common for companies and recruitment agencies to specify > > MS Word documents only. It's a de facto standard. > > this may be a bit offtopic :) ... > but i think we agree that this situation is not good. > is there any 'official' standard for office documents like there is for > html, css, xml etc.? > if not, are there any efforts to create one? > if such a standard would be created by an international institution and > for example governments start/plan using it MS would be forced to adapt > it... Open Office's Open Document is good, trouble is I doubt if MS or the like will ever adopt something that will make it easy to use software other than MS. And remember MS NEEDS frequent upgrades for their continued hold on corporate. Mike -- Michael W. Holdeman ________________________________________ Powered by Gentoo Linux www.gentoo.org | Kernel 2.6.11-ck8 | Win4Lin 5-1-20 netraverse.com | Win4LinPro 6.1.1-03 win4lin.com | ________________________________________|
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