Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Good Article for LibreOffice

On 28/11/2012 at 15:55, "VA" <cuyfalls@hotmail.com> wrote:

> That may be 
> the hazard of having a truly open and standard file format. It eliminates
> a  program's ability to survive.

This is far from truth.

Take a look at e-mail protocols: POP3 and IMAP. Do we have only two e-mail 
server apps and two e-mail client apps, one for each? No. We have plenty of 
servers and tons of clients.

Take a look at XMPP messaging protocol (this is what Gmail and Facebook uses 
for their chats). Again: plenty of servers, tons of apps.

Take a look at BitTorrent file sharing protocol. There are many clients for 
every platform.

We have standards for HTML and CSS, yet there are at least four competing web 
browsers out there (although there was time when market was monopolized).

This list can go on.

Standard file formats are pretty much irrelevant to program's ability to 
survive. It's number of features, availability on certain OS, UI, branding, 
number translations and other things which are around standards that matters.
-- 
Best regards
Mirosław Zalewski

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