[odf-discuss] Game over for OpenDocument?

[Chris Puttick]

Frankly barely comprehensible as English. Ecma OOXML does not provide
100% fidelity or even better fidelity than ODF for legacy MS
documents. The only reason that MS Office 2k7 provides better
translation than say OpenOffice is because the legacy formats are
undocumented and only MS have the code.

When requested, repeatedly, to provide evidence of the better fidelity
of OOXML over ODF MS eventually dropped that line of argument. You
want to depend on that for your legal surety as a CIO? Not me... See
http://doyoulovems.com/archives/58 for a narrative.

Migrated documents will not stand in law, just as a photocopy or a
transcription would not. Conversions to an XML based format will be
for internal workflows only - the original document will need to be
preserved to satisfy the legal requirements whatever.format you
choose. And if you are moving to XML for workflow purposes, you are
changing your entire IS anyway. The only issue in Massachusetts is
political lobbying not a technical challenge caused by ODF.

Chris

On 31/07/07, M. Fioretti <mfioretti at mclink.it> wrote:
> An article from Gary Edwards and Buck Martin (still reading it
> myself):
>
> http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1800436990&eid=-10
>
> Later,
>         Marco
>
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