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

Hi :)
I think you meant VHS but i really had to think about it.  Interesting to hear the Betamax really 
might have outlived VHS afterall!  People mostly moved to the various Dvd formats (including 
Bluray).  
Regards from
Tom :)  





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> From: rost52 <bugquestcontri@online.de>
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
> Sent: Thursday, 29 November 2012, 1:47
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Good Article for LibreOffice
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>
> This reminds me to video systems: Video2000 was said to be the best but died quickly. Sony BetaMax 
> is only alive in the professional sector, but VDF (is this correct?), always called the worst 
> video 
> system in still alive...
>
>
>
> On 2012-11-29 00:14, Mirosław Zalewski wrote:
> > 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.
>
>
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