Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 25th Feb 2007 22:01 UTC, submitted by geert
"Microsoft Word users now can easily import and export to the OpenDocument Format. The StarOffice 8 Conversion Technology Preview, a plug-in for Microsoft Word 2003 that allows users of Microsoft Word 2003 to read, edit and save to the OpenDocument Format is now available."
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2005-07-06
It boggles my mind that this format can be an ECMA (and ISO now?) standard without an open reference implementation.
The problem isn't that there isn't an open reference implementation, the problem is that the proposed standard contains references to old extinct Microsoft products. E.g. it says things like "handle line breaks like MS Office version x". If you no longer can get hold of that version of office how are you supposed to make an implementation of your own, or test that your implementation actually follows the standard.
BTW, as far as I know OpenXML hasn't been approved as ISO standard yet and many principal standards bodies have filed contradictions.