Re: [libreoffice-users] 4.0.3

On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Andrew Brown <andrewbr@icon.co.za> wrote:

> Amit
>
> Your knowledge of the document standards is limited by your reply here.
> This issue of the document standards and naming convention was covered by a
> world body of multinationals and the preservation of all things in human
> digital text etc. This was to allow anyone, alien or earthly, thousands of
> years from now, to decode and read and modify the history in the digital
> world of mankind. So the open document standards were born and ratified and
> accpeted by the majority of the world that counts. MS did not agree and
> tried to introduce their own so-called opens standard with the .xml base,
> i.e.x docx, xlsx, and so forth.
>
> But it has not been accepted by the world bodies, even though the MS
> document standard does survive. As you will now notice MSO 2007
> (partially), MSO 2010 and 2013 all can reads and write in the ODS standard
> used by OOo, AOO and LO. MS had no choice but to fit in and follow suit, so
> it's not the other way around that we and all other s outside of the use of
> MSO, must fit in. The ODS standard is here to stayt and will dominate over
> time, no matter what the masses say and want. It's about education that we
> all have choices and many efficient and useful alternatives in the digital
> world.
I might be out-of-date of what had been decided. But what I see is this: MS
Office everywhere I worked which translates to possibly billions of
doallars in MS pcokets.

My agenda with whatever I have wrote till now is: Why should MS get
billions of dollars?

The open formats should be supported, I am not against that, I am against
the timing.

MS Office will win because 90% of computers have Windosws on them. Until
Linux desktops/laptops become popular people will not switch to open
document format.

My strategy would be similar to MS: Make users switch to LO and then give
them open dcoument format and remove MS formats. Since 90% of the
installations will have LO, no one is going to complain and they will
happily settle for open document format and MS can't do anything.

It is the strategy and timing I am talking about. Doing both together (MS
compatibility + Open document) is a strain on developers and QA.

Given that LO has very few developers and QA, then why should LO focus on
two product lines. It is not correct strategy.

Regards,
Amit

PS: I am not pushing my ideas but I do not want to pay MS. Also, I will be
using LO but if the person who is receiving my document has MS Office, then
what?

MS is a clever, arm-twisting company. You never know what they can come up
with. Bill Gates knew about monopoly and that's why all MS components are
intertwined with each other so that if you remove one component then other
component will not work properly. Bill Gates did this even before question
arose about breaking up MS, and after this happened in Europe, MS avoided
it easily by stating that if they remove IE then Windows will not work
properly and got away with not breaking up.

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