[libreoffice-marketing] Why ODF standards?

I see a lot of discussion on the subject.  I think that 
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/01/137257 says it best.

Quote

"In Service Pack 3 for Office 2003, Microsoft disabled support for many 
older file formats. If you have old Word, Excel, 1-2-3, Quattro, or 
Corel Draw documents, watch out! They did this because the old formats 
are 'less secure', which actually makes some sense, but only if you got 
the files from some untrustworthy source. Naturally, they did this by 
default, and then documented a mind-bogglingly complex workaround (KB 
938810) rather than providing a user interface for adjusting it, or even 
a set of awkward 'Do you really want to do this?' dialog boxes to click 
through. And of course because these are, after all, old file formats 
... many users will encounter the problem only months or years after the 
software change, while groping around in dusty and now-inaccessible 
archives."

End quote.



No need to reply, just read and draw your on conclusions.

Andy

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