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Re: [LUG] Say NO toMicrosoft Office becoming an ISO Standard

 

On 22/06/07, Matthew Fairtlough <matthew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Paul Sutton wrote:
> > Done,  its interesting to note the following
> > * standard ISO26300 named Open Document Format (ODF)*:
> >
> > Anyone submitting documents to websites or asking for documents in
> > something other than DOC, can now quote the following,
> >
> > I have attached my assignment in industry standard * ISO26300 Open
> > Document Format (ODF)*: format,
> >
> > No one can argue with that can they,  Any comments.
> >
> >
> I'm a tutor with the Open University and it is sad to say but in most
> (but not all) cases you would get a (possibly polite) notice from your
> tutor saying that the document _must_ be submitted in doc format for it
> to be marked.  No argument, you just fail the course unless you toe the
> line :-)  If it was your final assignment and you submitted in the
> "wrong" format and too close to the deadline to resubmit you might well
> simply fail the entire course anyway.

That would be the same Open University that provides OpenOffice to all
students - why can't it provide same to tutors? *sigh*

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