Just a heads up about .odf files

[WJ Seidl]

I am posting this to both the kubuntu users list and to openoffice users 
list.
My apologies if you've already seen it.

This came from neowin.net last night:

Microsoft is supporting a chief rival to its Office suite for approval 
to a national standards board.
The company announced yesterday that it voted to add the Open Document 
Format (ODF) 1.0 to the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) 
list. ANSI is a private, nonprofit organization that coordinates and 
develops U.S. standards for products and processes.

ODF is used by open source Office competitors in the Linux space, 
including the OpenOffice.org suite and the KOffice suite. It is 
supported by IBM, Sun Microsystems, Oracle, Corel, Novell, Opera 
Software and Red Hat.
"We have listened to our customers, and they have told us they want 
choice, they want interoperability, they want innovation," said Tom 
Robertson, general manager for Interoperability and Standards at 
Microsoft, in a press release. "The American National Standards list 
does not include a number of document format standards in wide use 
today, such as PDF, .DOC, RTF and HTML. The inclusion of ODF is just the 
beginning; we expect the list will grow in the future to reflect the 
choices customers already have in today's marketplace."


Amusing, huh? Trying to catch up, are they?  TOO LATE! <g>
Best,
WJ Seidl