On 2010-3-15 11:02 AM, Ian wrote:

> I don't know why supplanting ...

I would guess because journalists, or at least editors, are required to
plant the nasty M-word everywhere to take some of the thunder out of
successful technology or innovators.  Even the Wikipedia article about
Steve Jobs ends up looking, from the photos, like it's about a primary
antagonist.  FWIW, when someone uses MSO, that reduces *your* ability to
choose.  But that's a different, old discussion.

On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 08:55 +0100, Juergen Schmidt wrote:
> eWEEK’s Top 25 Technologies Of The Decade
> 15. Openoffice.org ... But if overall impact is considered,
> Openoffice.org has definitely been influential, especially when it
> comes to opening up document formats.

Thanks for spotting that, Juergen.

The skewed and kind of weird selection of specific items (e.g. VMWare
over others, AMD64 over others, etc), makes it really big news that OOo
got on the list.  We were looking for material for the press release for
the March 31st observance of Document Freedom Day.  This item or at
least the impact that OOo has on opening up office formats is worth
mentioning.

Many of the gripes and costs pertaining to productivity software are
resolved by using a universal office format.


/Lars

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