[CS-FSLUG] NI: Could ODF be the Net's new, frictionless document DNA?

[Fred A. Miller]

"Come to think of it, what documents can't be stored in ODF?  What about 
browser-generated documents that are authored in GMail, Yahoo Mail or even 
blogs?  Once a few key providers of these different document authoring tools 
decide to natively store their documents in ODF, then the ODF format could 
enter a viral stage that turns ODF into the underlying DNA to anything 
capable of generating text.  Were this to happen, Microsoft would have no 
choice but to support ODF (something it's apparently considering) since at 
that point, it would not only be odd man out, the number of ODF-compliant 
documents being generating by all the ODF-compliant authoring tools in total 
would begin to catch up to Microsoft's file formats."

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/index.php?p=1998&tag=nl.e539

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