Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Teaching programming

[Julien Kyou]

On 02/03/2016 01:52 PM, Mike Gerwitz wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 11:24:25 -0500, Harry Prevor wrote:
>> For the record, this has never been true. I wrote a program a
>> long time ago that allows you to download Google Docs in the free
>> ODT format; the script seems to have been lost but the process is
>> still simple:
>> 
>> http://archive.is/Oxqwf
> 
> Ah, this is good, thank you for sharing.
> 
>> You may still not want to use GD because it may be difficult (but
>> not impossible) to *edit* the documents using only free software,
>> but it certainly is not hard to view Google Docs documents using
>> only free software.
> 
> It's good that we have a way to view these documents.  But it's not
> an excuse for others to use Google Docs.  What they could do is 
> provide the ODT link instead of the normal Google Docs link if they
> do have to link to such a document.
> 
I've been wondering this for a while now, but why net use
LibreOffice's "Office Open XML Text" it is, as far as I am aware, ' a
libre format' and has has the added benefit that if someone sends you
a MS docx file you can view it.