[odf-discuss] strategy for ODF migration (was: A story of TIFF)

[Daniel Carrera]

On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 23:33 +0100, Peter Vandenabeele wrote:

> If you prefer to call the entire class of documents "ODF", fine, may I then
> suggest to call them:
> 
>   "ODF without extensions"  (aka "ODF")
>   "ODF with extensions"       (aka "ODFX")
> 
> as 2 derived classes ? I am open to any other proposals for names ...

How about:

* pure-ODF = ODF without extensions.
* MS-ODF   = ODF with MS vendor lock-in.

The convention is extensible to include vendor lock-in from other
vendors (IBM-ODF, WP-ODF, ...). You can further have a non-pure-ODF
category that encompasses all types of vendor lock-in.

And .odtx seems like a good way to denote non-pure-ODF.

> The data is also not lost if it is stored in its original MS formats. And since
> MS Office is required in both cases for full fidelity access to the documents, I
> see little advancement in getting rid of the vendor lock-in from Microsoft
> Office.

+1

Daniel.
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