[libreoffice-users] Re: can I make Libre default to save as .rtf

I am a TDF Director and one of the official spokespersons.


e-letter wrote
> > In other words, do not waste LO programmers' time to resolve your desire
> > to use LO as a free m$o clone.
>
> You are assuming something completely wrong here. In the future, please
> avoid such statements, and - even more important - please listen to people
> on this mailing list who seem to be better informed than you are.
>
> TDF developers are working hard to improve the level of interoperability
> with many file formats, because we want LibreOffice to be both the best
> implementation of ODF (a format that we want to be the standard for
> electronic documents) and the most interoperable office suite.
>
> Users are free to use LibreOffice to read and write RTF and DOC/XLS/PPT
> files (and even DOCX/XLSX/PPTX files), although they should understand
> that only ODF will provide the best level of document interoperability, as
> it is the native LibreOffice file format and it is also supported by the
> latest versions of MS Office for Windows.
>
> Of course, users should also understand that proprietary formats like RTF
> and legacy MS Office formats have been developed in order to lock them in
> into using MS Office, and should avoid the formats not because they are
> intrinsically bad (although they often are) but because they intentionally
> reduce their freedom.
>
> Although user habits could let many user think that MS Office legacy
> formats are the most practical for interoperability, they should not
> overlook the fact that by sticking to MS Office legacy format they
> perpetuate their lock in into Microsoft products.
>
> TDF is actively promoting ODF, which is the format of choice for all
> actual and future versions of LibreOffice. ODF is not only open and
> standard, but is also easier to implement than other ISO standard formats.
> For instance, OOXML has been approved as ISO standard in 2008, but after
> almost four years is still implemented in the non standard "transitional"
> version even by Microsoft (the company behind the original format) because
> of the incredible complexity of the format (confirmed by the length of the
> documentation of over 7.200 pages, i.e. almost six times as many as the
> ODF documentation).
>
> This incredible complexity is a new form of lock in, as it makes extremely
> difficult to reproduce the file format. LibreOffice, on the other way,
> represents the best third party implementation of OOXML.
>
> > If you want to contribute towards reaching a future when "most of the
> > world" are at least _aware_ of odf, you should:
> > (a) send documents in pdf to view or odf to edit and tell your recipients
> > about your use of LO to produce your documents
> > in pdf & odf; > (b) send documents in odf and tell your recipients that
> > such documents will be visible in m$o but the
> > quality will be poor, otherwise recommend use of LO to view/edit document
> > to high quality.
>
> I think that LibreOffice advocates should promote ODF by suggesting them
> to install LibreOffice, in order to get all the benefits of a truly open
> and standard format as ODF, but should also respect the choice of people
> who are not willing to change their office suite. Of course, if these
> people are still using MS Office 2003, it is easy to explain that
> LibreOffice provides a very similar user experience while offering a large
> number of new features and security updates.
>
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