[mdlug] OO.org in Mi schools

[bob dion]

Michael Rudas wrote:

> 
> "Crushed by the Wheels of Industry"
> 
> <http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-6183476.html>
> 
> Vendor lock-in via "trial" software?  Wowzer!
> 

 From the article
-- Being a geek, I'll leave you with a puzzle. I did work out a another 
way I could have retrieved her homework files without having to use a 
DOCX translator. Can you think of what I might have in mind ? Let me 
know what you would have done in this circumstance. In true Open Source 
fashion let's work out how to solve the problem in as many ways as we 
can think of!

Would an XML editor or parser be able to extract the text from a docx file?

BD