Re: [libreoffice-users] Should LibreOffice even support Microsoft secret formats?

On 9/11/2011 9:54 AM, Nuno J. Silva wrote:
> On 2011-09-11, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
>
> > On 09/10/2011 04:08 PM, Anthony Papillion wrote:
<snip>
> Microsoft changes formats as a
> market strategy.

As explained by Carl Shapiro and Hal Varian (1998) Information rules:  a 
strategic guide to the network economy (Harvard U. Pr.).  A second 
subtitle for this book is, "How to wage and win a standards war."  
Microsoft has won for now.  The Document Foundation needs to continue 
trying to make LibreOffice as easy as possible for people to support.  
Gradually, more people are coming to understand the value of Free 
Open-Source Software (FOSS).  MSFT peaked at just under $60 per share on 
Dec. 31, 1999, and has been between 15 and 40 for the past decade.  
Companies like Google now pay people full time to support FOSS, and I 
expect that some governments will soon also pay people to support FOSS 
if they don't already.  The future belongs to LibreOffice, MySQL, Linux, 
R, etc.:  We just need to continue to deal with the world as it is, and 
the trend to FOSS will continue.


      Best Wishes,
      Spencer


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