Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: OpenOffice to be dumped in Freiburg ?

The truly maddening part is that, if more people used LibO, then the .ODT 
format would become "standard" and MS would be relegated to irrelevance.

So, Office wins because corporations buy it, making its file format 
"standard," which forces the rest of us to conform.

It's absolutely crazy.

Virgil

-----Original Message----- 
From: Tanstaafl
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2012 7:32 AM
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: OpenOffice to be dumped in Freiburg ?

On 2012-11-19 6:54 AM, M Henri Day <mhenriday@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2012/11/19 Tanstaafl<tanstaafl@libertytrek.org>
<snip>
> > I don't see this happening any more. Microsoft is on a roll now, coming
> > out with new versions *far* more often than they used to (which means 
> > they
> > can 'improve' the file formats much more often). My understanding is they
> > are actually pushing ultimately to a subscriptions based model - but this
> > could end up being good news, because imnsho, dong this could actually 
> > back
> > fire on them though (fingers crossed)... when I discussed this with my
> > boss, he commented that the day Microsoft *forces* us to have to 'renew'
> > our licenses annually is the day he will never upgrade again (just stay 
> > on
> > whatever version we currently have until the world ends).

> An excellent exposition of the methods used by Microsoft to «protect» its
> «intellectual property» - more accurately described as using its
> quasi-monopoly to exclude others from the market....

There is one more hing that could turn this around - if the EU (or some
other major governmental entity) were to engage in and win an antitrust
lawsuit against Microsoft and force them to *fully* document their file
formats, as happened with their Windows Server SMB protocols (which I
understand has benefited the Samba project immensely).

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