A few days ago (May 3rd), Pamela Jones from Groklaw found a Request for Information which the Commonwealth of Massachusetts put out, trying to find a way to make MSOffice read/write ODF.
The following day, of course, somebody came around and told PJ that they had a plugin to do exactly what Massachusetts wants done. That someone was Gary Edwards, from the OpenDocument Foundation.
Said plugin hasn’t been published/distributed yet, and the ODFundation hasn’t decided how they’ll do it. I’m hopeing they’ll do a FLOSS license, so the community could work with the ODFundation and make it as good as it can be done. On the other hand, if it isn’t under a FLOSS license, I’m pretty sure somebody out there will start working on one and involving the community into it.
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols wrote an interesting article with all the facts around this, worth the read.
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