[GTALUG] Europass docs and LibreOffice

James Knott james.knott at rogers.com
Wed Jul 15 14:33:24 UTC 2015


On 07/15/2015 08:30 AM, Stewart C. Russell wrote:
> Yes, OOXML is an ISO standard, but ODF is too, and earlier, and doesn't
> have weird "even we don't know what this does" settings.

There's a lot on Groklaw about how MS rammed OOXML through ISO and
pretty much crippled the committee in the process.
> For this reason, I keep a Win8.1 VM around (cheapo but legit licences
> can be had) and a $100 annual subscription to Office.

I can get Office 365 for free through work, but haven't bothered.  They
don't seem to have a Linux version available, so I'd have to run it in a
VM or only on my notebook, when booted into Windows.




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