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  1. Comment - Librarians Voice Support for OpenDoc

    (Dec 18, 2005 - 10:05 PM)

    We don't need to speculate 100 years in the future - just think 10 years.

    Current versions of Word cannot even open Word docs created just 10 or 11 years ago!

    And, Microsoft likes it this way. They're constantly changing the format to make it harder for others to open their files -- so hard, that even Microsoft can't keep up with their changes evidently
    (or rather, it's not worth the extra effort for them to be backwards compatible).

    It really says something that some people would be *opposed* to an actual open standard.