e-letter wrote
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.
That is not weak, it's a plain lie. Flash existed well before Youtube and browsers already had Flash plugins well before Youtube. Has flv become the de facto internet video standard because of Youtube? Probably. Was it Youtube's goal to promote Flash as a standard? No. So how is this comparable? LibreOffice's goal is to promote both the tool and the document format. Obviously you can send a document in ODF and tell people to get LibreOffice. But this has two big obstacles: people in companies are not free to install a program just because they want to; in many parts of world communications are so rare and expensive that suggesting someone to download 150 Megabytes to read a 50k document is an insult. To stick blindly to ODF would increase the digital divide, instead of eliminating it. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/can-I-make-Libre-default-to-save-as-rtf-tp3527035p3537904.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+help@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted