[dundee] Digital freedom debate

[Andrew Clayton]

On Thu, 5 Aug 2010 23:12:19 +0100, gordon dunlop wrote:

> On 5 August 2010 22:52, Andrew Clayton <andrew at digital-domain.net>
> wrote:
> 
> > Also a few years ago at linux.conf.au there was a talk about digital
> > preservation at the National Archives of Australia.
> >
> >  How many official government departmental documents are being made
> > in .pub
> or .docx format now. Nobody outside proprietary software can open
> them, unless anyone can tell me how to do it in open source software
> without using wine or the internet.

According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Writer OOo
writer can open .docx files.

Andrew