Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3280 mails)

["M. Fioretti" <mfioretti@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, December 12, 2007 12:57 am, James D. Parra wrote:

> In order for OO to be useable for everyone and, hopefully, displace the MS
> equivalents, OO will need to save in a way that anyone who uses MS will
> not have any difficulty opening and viewing the content.

but such a way, by DEFINITION, cannot be anything else than a file format
that
Microsoft does not and cannot control and change every time the OO filters
reach such a quality that "anyone who uses MS will not have any
difficulty".
That is, OpenDocument.

I'm not saying that making politicians and people in the street understand
this is easy, but it is simply not realistic to believe that this problem
can be solved for good in any other way than demanding OpenDocument
support in MS Office (either directly, as MS customers, or asking our
governments to not
deploy software which doesn't support OpenDocument).

A few related articles of mine:

Everybody's Guide to OpenDocument         www.linuxjournal.com/article/8616
Just Say No to OpenXML               
www.linuxjournal.com/article/9594#mpart8
Economics Researchers Meet OpenDocument   www.linuxjournal.com/article/8727
How much do we all pay for software?      http://digifreedom.net/node/45

         Marco
-- 
Your own civil rights and the quality of your own life heavily depend on
how software is used *around* you:        http://digifreedom.net/node/84

--
To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxx
For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@xxxxxxxxxxxx