Apple's iWork Pages: OpenOffice.org format?

[Clinton MacDonald]

Friends:

I just received and installed my copy of Apple's recently announced 
iWork suite which contains Keynote (Apple's PowerPoint killer -- which I 
love) and Pages, a brand-new word processing application. Well, it seems 
that the Pages file format is a gzipped XML file ("index.xml.gz"). Isn't 
that the same format used by OpenOffice.org?

Also, when examining the "About Pages" box, there is an Acknowledgments 
button... which opens to a GNU Library General Public License ("Free 
Software Foundation – (libiconv) Copyright (C) 1991 Free Software 
Foundation, Inc.").

Way to go, Apple!

Best wishes,
Clint

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Dr. Clinton C. MacDonald | <mailto:clint DOT macdonald AT sbcglobal DOT net>