[fpc-other] Standards (was: inflammatory comment)

[Jonas Maebe]

On 19 Oct 2007, at 03:47, L wrote:

>>> Then why have a standard, if no-one is going to use it ?
>
> You kind of answered your own question. GNU Pascal comes to mind.

That's a quite different situation. ODF is a pretty new standard  
(both as far as implementation and as far as "official status" is  
concerned), RTF is an pretty established implementation standard  
(which is displayed and interpreted differently in almost every  
application that supports it, because there are lots of application- 
specific extensions to it).

The official ODF standard is based on the OpenOffice implementation,  
it's not some abstract specification dreamed up by formalists. And  
e.g. the "WordPad" of the next Mac OS X version (TextEdit) will have  
native support for it (and also for OOXML, for that matter) --  
currently it only supports RTF and DOC.


Jonas