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ZDNet: Novell: We’ll Help Microsoft Develop ODF Compatibility in Office, If They Ask

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“Yesterday, when Novell announced that one of the first fruits
to be born out of its newly minted legal relationship with
Microsoft would be a plug-in to OpenOffice.org that would allow the
open source based office suite to open or save documents in
Microsoft’s Open Office XML (OO-XML) file format, I had a tough
time parsing through the text of the company’s press release. Would
the same functionality found in Novell’s distribution of
OpenOffice.org be available with no strings attached to the larger
OpenOffice.org open source project? To get that and other questions
answered, I checked in with Novell’s director of marketing Justin
Steinman and here’s how the line of questioning went…”

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