Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Ideas wanted for "How we're different" part of new LibreOffice website

My 4-pennyworth:
I have not used Microsoft for 20 years but the world does.  Almost no
academic publishers or conference organisers will accept .ODT etc.  So I
always have to test all my stuff out on malware!  And yes, I sometimes find
oddities in Microsoft documents which, I suspect are not safe (Chrome does
not like all these posts either- I have to retrieve some from spam).

My suggestion is that we try to build as large a community as we can,
whilst recognising that the majority will not join us.  It would help if we
could buy new PC's that were not already loaded with the Microxrap
operating system.  I went to at least 6 dealers here and could not persuade
any of them to sell me a blank system.  They all said that if I deleted W10
the warranty would be invalid.   The dirty tricks brigade are alive and
well!

Over 20 years ago, my University could not afford Windose 2000 and were
ready to convert all their PC;s to Linux.  Then a helicopter landed,
unannounced and a gang of smarmy suited Americans decided to gatecrash the
ViceChancellors office.  (It is on video somewhere).  Magically, the Uni
then got a very good deal....   I believe Munich had similar issues.

On Mon, 13 Dec 2021 at 14:16, Italo Vignoli <italo@vignoli.org> wrote:

> Unfortunately, the situation is way more complex than it seems.
>
> A few facts:
>
> 1. MS Office documents carry 80% of all malware worldwide
>
> 2. MS Office documents do not follow the OOXML pseudo-standard, as
> approved by ISO
>
> 3. The OOXML pseudo-standard breaks several ISO standards, such as the
> Gregorian calendar and the language codes
>
> 4. MS Office ODF implementation is poor, because the way MS Office
> manages XML schemas is completely different from the XML standard, and
> in some cases - such as comments - doesn't make it possible to support
> the ODF standard
>
> 5. Microsoft C-Fonts, which have been emulated by Croscore fonts (my
> blog post is mostly about Croscore fonts), have been deprecated for MS
> Office 2021, and will be replaced by a new set of proprietary fonts
> (which will break interoperability, again)
>
> I would never affirm that Microsoft supports open standards, on the
> contrary they develop the most sophisticated strategies to break open
> standards (and they unfortunately succeed).
>
> On 12/13/21 13:50, James Harking wrote:
> > Microsoft office is certainly not malware. It serves no purpose to spread
> > falsehoods. From previous messages in this thread Microsoft are doing
> more
> > than most to support open standards with their participation in Oasis.
> >
> > The interoperability issue for me is around Microsoft Office document
> > fidelity on non Microsoft platforms.
> >
> > On Mon, 13 Dec 2021, 12:38 Ravi, <ravi@ravidwivedi.in> wrote:
> >
> > > I think every time we receive a word document from someone, we should
> > > make them aware about the interoperability issues and tell them
> > > Microsoft Office is a nonfree software which is a malware.
> > >
> > > If some people switch to LibreOffice, that would be a real change.
> > > Whether people listen or not, I keep speaking about these issues and
> > > some of them do switch to LibreOffice or free software in general.
> > >
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