[ale] Visio->Linux? (was: ALE NW meeting last night)

[Joe]

Fulton Green <ale at FultonGreen.com> writes:

> Doesn't Visio have an "export to XML" option that could, in theory, be read
> in by (or converted to work with) Dia or Kivio?  Or am I just confusing that
> with M$ Office 11's drive to XML?

Wait... MicroSoft *pushing* an open standard??? That makes no
sense. Oh, wait, I bet it'll be called "MS-XML", it will have subtle
but infuriating incompatibilities with standard XML syntax, and all
the DTDs will be top secret.

-- Joe Knapka

> On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 03:14:25PM -0500, Greg wrote:
> > Dia and Kivio are some of the open source equivalents to Visio, but there
> > will probably not be an open source program that uses the Visio format as it
> > is closed (I am guessing probably copyrighted/patented to the max).  I would
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