Re: Fw: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] pro-OpenDocument Format arguments

On 11/25/2011 07:14 AM, Italo Vignoli wrote:
> On 11/25/11 12:41 PM, Tom Davies wrote:
>
> > The FSF seems positively rabid and starts with the premise that
> > people want to be free rather than to just get on with work easily.
> > Your post makes a lot more sense and is a lot calmer.  Can i use
> > parts of it to present an argument to work-colleagues and a few other
> > people outside of TDF?
> Although I share many FSF ideas, I do not approve at all their
> communication strategy. You are free to use my text, and I have added to
> my todo list a presentation on the subject.

No matter how much better ODF is over MSO formats, it will take a lot of 
effort to get businesses to switch.

We will never see ".doc" or ".docx" go away as the "default" format for 
word processing.  It has been the business standard for too many years 
for that to change.  So if a suite wants to be part of the business 
market, it needs to be able to use MSO formats.

As for ODF, well I think it will grow in use.  I use it as my default 
format[s] but I still have to send .doc files to many contacts who's 
work have not thought of switching.  Several of these are at state 
governed agencies that has too much of a ingrained use of MSO to be able 
to break out of it easily.

As more and more governments respond to budget pressures and stop buying 
MSO contracts, then we have a hope to continue to grow in the market.  
The issue is all of those legacy systems that cannot read/write ODF 
formats.  Businesses will still need to deal with non-ODF formats for a 
long time until those old systems are replaced with LO or other ODF 
usable systems.

I will hope that more and more businesses use ODF for internal use, 
while "exporting" those documents to MSO formats for external use.  If 
MSO starts reading/writing ODF better, then ODF may grow faster.  If we 
can find a filter that allows MSO to read/write ODF formats, for those 
versions that did not try to built it in, then we can send that filter 
to our business contacts as something that may help their businesses 
deal with the International Standard Office Suite file formats called ODF.



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