[Discussion] DOCX [Was: can you recommend a laptop?]

[Stan Sidlov]

fwiw, my understanding and opinion is, this is going to be a fail on the
part of the judge, as docx is based on open xml a MS standard that has been
accepted internationally. Supposed to be supported in OO, supported by
Google in converting to Google docs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML

On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Carl Gehr <Carl.Gehr at mcgcg.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 7 Sep 2009 08:12:04 -0700 (PDT), Thomas Clayton wrote:
>
> >With regard to .DOCX , everyone on this list know that a Federal judge has
> injoined MS from selling, bundling, ... distributing MS-Word on grounds of
> patent infringement? I "picked up" that tidbit, when led thru infoWorld some
> two weeks ago to another subject.
>
> A subsequent message from the person who sent the DOCX file said that
> it was created on a 'new MAC!'
>
> I knew about the injunction, but did not connect that to the DOCX type.
>  And, I've not heard any follow up about what MS plans to do.  I wonder
> how it impacts the [supposed] OO 3.x Beta support?
>
> Thanks for the tip...
> Carl
>
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