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Sun, IBM Continue Open Standards Double-Speak [view article]
So Dennis, your response to their comments about needing open standards is that you don't have a problem because you save your files in a open standard? (yes, text files and rich text files are open standards) You didn't refute their point, you proved it. And if standard ANSI text files provided a way to adequately save modern formatting, I'm sure we'd just stick with them, but because they don't, we do need updated standards.Additionally, pushing for adoption of ODF isn't just about generating software sales, since OpenOffice is free and actually very good. StarOffice and other software pieces seek to add additional features to entice you to buy their product over using freeware, but the whole point is that you are not locked into one particular software vendor and could switch to freeware or another vendor with no impact. Both IBM and Sun have adopted the business model of trying to provide you services you'll actually want to buy rather than locking you into their products. A novel concept. (Actually, to be fair to IBM, they've been doing it for years. Sun's just a late comer to their game). Mar 19 03:44 PM