Microsoft vs. Open Office: Getting to the Bottom of It, Once and For All

[robkelk]

RTF is a very strong 'de facto' universal standard, but it is, de jure, a propietary, closed, unreliable format.

And, if what Bob said is correct, RTF changes with every major Microsoft release. A format that changes that often is hardly a "standard".

Open Document Text (ODT), on the other hand, is the ISO standard document file format. It should be supported by all modern standards-compliant text processors.
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Rob Kelk
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