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

Hi :)
Thanks for the boost in morale there!
Regards from
Tom :)  





> ________________________________
> From: Mirosław Zalewski <miniopl@poczta.onet.pl>
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
> Sent: Wednesday, 28 November 2012, 15:14
> Subject: 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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