On 15/01/2017 19:28, toki wrote:
On 01/15/2017 02:52 PM, Mathias Röllig wrote:
Many companies need to import MS document formats. They don't have the
choice to teach all customers to send an other document format.
That might be the case in the United States, but in Europe, the legal
requirement is to use ODF file formats.
Unless the ODF file is created with MS Office, opening it in MS Office
will generate a scaring message that the document is corrupted. Thus the
only way to follow the legal rule is to use MS Office...
If MS could be legally stopped from doing this, maybe ODF could become
the de-facto standard. As it is, MS file formats are the rule and not
the exception in EU (I'm talking about official documents sent from
Brussels and also those within the Portuguese government). I have NEVER
received an official document in ODF from ANY EU country.
As long as this keeps going, there is no document freedom or freedom
from vendor lock in.
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