Format Comparison Between ODF and MS XML (Groklaw) [LWN.net]

Format Comparison Between ODF and MS XML (Groklaw)

Posted Nov 28, 2005 18:36 UTC (Mon) by Blaisorblade (guest, #25465)
In reply to: Format Comparison Between ODF and MS XML (Groklaw) by drag
Parent article: Format Comparison Between ODF and MS XML (Groklaw)

> However the tradition for 'Wysiwyg' style word proccessors has continued. Your sending the working formats from one person to another and storing the working formats as archival stuff.. which is stupid.

It isn't so stupid if you remember that one big reason people use a computer rather than a typewriter is that you can change what you wrote time ago.

Sure, for archives it can make sense to have a "presentation format". But only when "archive" means "external archive", i.e. an archive of published papers from different people. I would never save anything in PDF, I'd only "export" in that format. Better yet, I would almost never read the content in PDF format (except maybe if acroread starts faster than *Office*, but that's a different thing).

While I would never open an image in .xcf rather than .jpeg.

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