From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 20 15:43:14 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EF6016A420 for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 15:43:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists@ptfd.org) Received: from qtm.net (mummra.qtm.net [216.163.32.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3E9B043D6D for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 15:43:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists@ptfd.org) Received: (qmail 41974 invoked from network); 20 Sep 2005 15:42:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.14.123?) (ptfd@24.7.229.56) by mummra.qtm.net with SMTP; 20 Sep 2005 15:42:54 -0000 From: "Michael W. Holdeman" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 10:51:59 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <200509201524.38564.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> <20050920171953.32974328@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20050920171953.32974328@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200509201052.00431.lists@ptfd.org> Subject: Re: IE in FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: mikeh@ptfd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 15:43:14 -0000 On Tuesday 20 September 2005 11:19 am, jonas wrote: > hi! > > On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 15:24:38 +0100 > > RW wrote: > > Because it's common for companies and recruitment agencies to specify > > MS Word documents only. It's a de facto standard. > > this may be a bit offtopic :) ... > but i think we agree that this situation is not good. > is there any 'official' standard for office documents like there is for > html, css, xml etc.? > if not, are there any efforts to create one? > if such a standard would be created by an international institution and > for example governments start/plan using it MS would be forced to adapt > it... Open Office's Open Document is good, trouble is I doubt if MS or the like will ever adopt something that will make it easy to use software other than MS. And remember MS NEEDS frequent upgrades for their continued hold on corporate. Mike -- Michael W. Holdeman ________________________________________ Powered by Gentoo Linux www.gentoo.org | Kernel 2.6.11-ck8 | Win4Lin 5-1-20 netraverse.com | Win4LinPro 6.1.1-03 win4lin.com | ________________________________________|