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

Hi :)
Again that is something MS has been pretty clever about.  Their new format (the one that only works 
on the same machine, the same OS and the same version of MSO) has the same name as something they 
pushed through as an ISO standard and it has all the right words in it, such as Office and Open.  
So even though their implementations are not open they can claim the standard is and when that 
standard is implemented and doesn't work they can claim it's the fault of the 3rd party.  
Regards from
Tom :)  





> ________________________________
> From: Carl Paulsen <carlpaulsen@comcast.net>
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
> Sent: Tuesday, 20 November 2012, 1:50
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: OpenOffice to be dumped in Freiburg ?
>
> Here, here.  But what about gov'ts mandating simply that the format 
> structure be open (without mandating a specific one be used)? That's not 
> political IMHO.
> Carl
>
>
> On 11/19/12 3:15 PM, M Henri Day wrote:
> > 2012/11/19 VA <cuyfalls@hotmail.com>
> >
> > > At the risk of getting political, the last thing I want is my government
> > > dictating to me what kind of file format to use on my documents.
> > >
> > > Virgil
> > At the risk of getting political, the last thing I want is a multi-national
> > corporation, responsible to no one save a few major shareholders and/or top
> > executives, which, due to its domination of the market, can effectively
> > render it manditory for me to use its proprietary file format....
> >
> > Regulation of markets, so that they remain as free and accessible as
> > possible, is one of the principle tasks of government....
> >
> > Henri
>
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