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Re: [LUG] Microsoft cries out to UK government against open source

 

On 25 February 2014 05:36, Martijn Grooten <martijn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The same of course is true for HTML, so this in itself shouldn't be held

Unless I misunderstood you, it's not true of HTML. An ancient browser
can render a "modern" HTML5 document.

A current browser can render an ancient Web page. Essentially you
would be able to get at the information.




ODF/OOXML are both utter catastrophes. It would be crazy to store
public data in either format.

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