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

 

On 25/02/14 01:00, Kai Hendry wrote:
> 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.

False

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

True

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

True



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