Get legal, get OOo
OpenOffice.org is looking to take advantage of Microsoft’s latest anti-piracy drive by advertising their software as the quickest, and cheapest, way to “get legal.”
ZDNet called on the EC to stop prevaricating over the adoption of ODF following promises from Microsoft over it’s OpenXML “standards”.
The European Commission wants an open standard for documents. ODF has been approved by the ISO as just that, and was expected to become the official EC recommendation. Yet Microsoft’s late announcement that its competing OpenXML document format was also being put before the ISO has led to the EC backtracking on its previous support, instead adopting a wait-and-see policy.