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Robin Cornelius wrote: >> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5153350.stm > > Surely an open format is still open to "interpretation" > > Lets take html, its open, its published, its standardised but IE > manages to render it in such a way that is different to other > browsers. If word does the same then a document will look fine in word > but take it somewhere else and it will look wrong and the open source > community will then be left trying to get bug for bug compatibility > (or at least translation) so users can view these files as intended. > > Robin > If this happened I would have thought that any government body would take this to mean that M$ was not complying with the demand for ODF conformability. Keith -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html