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Petition to get Apple to support OpenDocument in iWork

Filip Molcan has just pointed out a new petition to get Apple to support the ISO standard 26300, otherwise known as OpenDocument in iWork 08. iWork 08 already supports the Open Office XML (OOXML) document format, which isn’t yet an ISO standard. Wasn’t Apple meant to be a supporter of open standards?

Published on August 9, 2007 · Filed under: Apple, Open Source, OpenDocument, OpenOffice, petition;

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One Response to “Petition to get Apple to support OpenDocument in iWork”

Anonymous said on August 10th, 2007 at 2:40 pm

Apple has a seriously mixed record on standards, even with ODF. For example, it’s been reported that Leopard has some support for ODF baked into the OS. IIRC, TextEdit can read and write ODF.

The iWork team has a history of being really sloppy on standards. Their previous file formats have a) sucked, and b) been poorly documented.

So it seems to me the problem is that management doesn’t insist on an open standards policy across the organization.

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