Re: Formats & failed marketing, was: Fwd: Cost of MS Office relative to LO, was: Fwd: [libreoffice-users] Re: moving to new version of MS Office

Le Sun, 1 Dec 2013 19:09:57 +0000,
Tom Davies <tomcecf@gmail.com> a écrit :

> Hi :)
> I think the largest company in the eco-system is beginning to be TDF!
> IBM is larger but it doesn't seem to want to be a big name in office
> desktops.
>
> Does the ODF Alliance still exist?  Their website seems to be dead or
> perhaps just very out-of-date.  Perhaps people from TDF could get
> involved in updating it?  

We don't control anything on the ODF Alliance website, which was never
an actual entity and today it's been left inactive for several years
already.

> Perhaps Apache might be interested in giving
> it a boost too?  Perhaps it's just that it's main reasons for
> existence are over now? 

That is what some would call an insightful remark :-)


> OASIS is a LOT more lively.  Last i heard
> there were some (or at least 1) people from TDF involved in that.

oh there are more, but keep in mind the OASIS is where ODF is "made",
not from where it gets promoted. The OASIS is a standards consortium,
not an advocacy group.


> Also there seems to be TDF people involved in FSF (or is it FSF people
> involved in TDF?).  Anyway, either way is good.

I think it's the opposite, FSF is a sponsor of TDF.


Best,

Charles. 

> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
>
>
> On 1 December 2013 16:40, Italo Vignoli <italo.vignoli@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On 01/12/13 14:14, Charles-H. Schulz wrote:
> >
> > > Today, things are very different:
> > > - the ODF ecosystem is not so unified (and to explain why probably
> > >   needs a whitepaper)
> >
> > Unfortunately, the largest company in the ecosystem is now focused
> > on other objectives, and has been instrumental in splitting the
> > ecosystem (and keeping it divided, in a way which makes it probably
> > impossible to reunite).
> >
> > > - Microsoft implements ODF... in a serious and very efficient way.
> >
> > We should be more effective in leveraging MS ODF support, though.
> >
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