Re: [libreoffice-users] 4.0.3

Hi Amit

I understand where you are coming from, and the good news is, in your 
favour, that MS in both it's O/S and office suite are losing market 
share in a big way. Here's an article from Ubuntu founder and my 
countryman Mark Shuttelworth on his take on MS and Ubuntu. I like his 
statement that the no.1 bug in Linux has now been fixed/closed, in that 
MS no longer dominates majority market share.

As you'll notice in the supplied link article and the chart, MS has 
toppled since 2011 in market share, and I believe will continue to do so 
with Android, Firefox O/S for mobiles and shortly Ubuntu Touch for 
mobiles. And along with a launch shortly of their own device the Ubuntu 
Edge, a great looking device from the pics so far, second link.

http://memeburn.com/2013/05/microsoft-dominance-is-over-mark-shuttleworth-declares-ubuntu-bug-no-1-fixed/

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ubuntu-edge

Anyway I am off-topic here, I see a great future even now for all 
opensourced Office suites, and it will grow along with the above 
mentioned software and hardware.

Regards
<http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ubuntu-edge>

On 29/07/2013 10:33 AM, Amit Choudhary wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Andrew Brown <andrewbr@icon.co.za 
> <mailto: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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