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

On 25/11/2011, Italo Vignoli <italo.vignoli@quorum-pr.com> wrote:
> Unfortunately (for you and the people who share the same idea), history
> shows that going face to face against Microsoft is the wrong strategy.

Cannot see how active promoting odf instead of passive promotion of m$
is a wrong strategy.

> 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).

The fact is a significant proportion of users have no interest in
promoting odf; their primary personal benefit is their ability to use
LO to send m$ formats to recipients.

> 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.

This is weak; did youtube fail because initially web browsers did not
have flash plug-in technology? No, the content was so strong, flash
became a de facto multimedia standard driven by user demand.

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