> It is a little bit disturbing to hear LO fanboys touting the virtues of writing OOXML files, as if this is a good thing. Interoperability should be the goal, not promoting Microsoft's file format. It is a little bit disturbing to hear LO fanboys touting the virtues of writing OOXML files, as if this is a good thing. But if you want to be absolutely safe, just save as a DOC/XLS/PPT binary format, which is widely compatible with all versions of Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, LibreOffice, KOffice, WordPerfect, etc. If they are using an older version of Microsoft Office, say Office 2003, then they are not producing OOXML at all. I *do not* encourage the use of OOXML or other closed formats. The more recent versions support it quite well. Remember, Microsoft Office since Office 2007 supports ODF. When I receive a document in OOXML format I load it, make my changes and save it back into a free format like ODF. Maybe this approach has not occurred to you before, but I'll put it out for anyone who cares about open standards and open formats. Looking at search-directed traffic to the website it was clear that few users typed the full name either. My personal opinion: the ".org" to me sounded too much like a 2002-era meme, when adding a ".com" to a pickle company would cause its stock to go up 10-fold overnight. We had a vote over a year ago to decide between Apache OpenOffice and Apache. As part of that we now conform to the the Apache naming scheme. But now the community has moved to Apache and joined with the large existing open source community there. It was an product (OpenOffice) as well as an independent community (".org"). One way to think of this is that the ".org" referred to the community. That's the name and Apache claims a trademark on that name. Apache still gets download requests for these, since the older versions cover some legacy platforms and architectures still in use, like Solaris and PowerPC.īut 3.4.0 and beyond, these are called "Apache OpenOffice". Versions prior to 3.4.0 are properly called "".
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