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@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org