Microsoft Office - pros and cons (was: Re: [Ti] OpenOffice on Mac)

[Mikael Byström]

Chris Olson said:

>Open standards foster competition for the best implementation of the  
>standard.  The open-standards approach means that the standard has  
>many more people who scrutinize one another's work than is possible  
>from a single vendor, resulting in a more stable - and ultimately  
>more satisfactory - result.  Obviously, open standards help reduce  
>the possibility that a single vendor could hold customers hostage, as  
>has been the case with Microsoft's Office file formats in the past.

 Very well put, Chris.