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

On 11/25/11 11:01 AM, e-letter wrote:

> What exactly is being assumed? Better informed about what? The
> original statement is merely a declaration of personal interest; a
> preference that limited time spent resolving "compatibility" is
> instead spent improving native odf.

Well, if is a declaration of personal interest, please state this.

> Review the bug reports and the mailing list posts; it can be seen that
> users do not appreciate the strategic error in using LO to create m$
> documents.

Of course, bug reports and mailing lists reflect the more vocal people,
who seems to be biased towards going face to face against Microsoft.

Unfortunately (for you and the people who share the same idea), history
shows that going face to face against Microsoft is the wrong strategy.

OOXML has been approved in his rotten version because there have been
people (and companies) going face to face against Microsoft instead of
adopting a different strategy. With Microsoft, you have to play "David
against Goliath", because in any other way Microsoft is going to
outpower any other company (including IBM), just because they have got
the IBM lesson (FUD and lobby) and made it better.

Again, history has demonstrated that guerrilla marketing strategies are
more effective than traditional ones. You are free to choose war, but we
are not going to follow you (at least until we have been elected
directors of the foundation by the members).

> See comment above. Without forcing novice users to either pay m$ or
> use a free(dom) alternative, odf usage will remain low.

I have written exactly the opposite of what you understand (I am not a
native English speaker, so is my fault). I have written that users who
know the advantages of ODF should become evangelists of the format and
suggest to other users to use ODF, because MS Office reads and writes
ODF (although in a limited way).

Pissing off users by sending them formats that they are not able to read
(most users do not even know the concept of file formats), will not
achieve any result other than alienating the reputation of the software
used to produce the unreadable formats.

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