(j3.2006) ballot comments

[Lionel, Steve]

The question is - what would you recommend as a widely-available and
used alternative?  Like it or not, most people consider Word the
"standard" for editable document interchange. Word or Word-compatible
tools are available for the major desktop platforms.

Steve

> -----Original Message-----
> From: j3-bounces at j3-fortran.org [mailto:j3-bounces at j3-fortran.org] On
> Behalf Of Michael Ingrassia
> Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 4:41 PM
> To: j3 at j3-fortran.org
> Subject: Re: (j3.2006) ballot comments
> 
> >Doesn't Sun's free OpenOffice support reading and writing .doc files
> on
> >Linux/Mac?
> 
> Yes, http://download.openoffice.org/other.html#en-US has downloads
> for Windows, Linux, Solaris, and Mac OSX.
> 
> There's really no reason for INCITS to require Word, and it doesn't
> promote INCITS standards.  Is there some way we can protest?
> 
> 	--Michael I.
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