Hi Louis,
On 27.03.2013 16:03, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote:
Hi Malte!
It's a pleasure to see you here…
I am here since the beginning of AOO - but working on other stuff, it's
quite hard to follow the lists... ;)
On 13-03-27, at 09:51 , Malte Timmermann <malte_timmerm...@gmx.com> wrote:
On 24.03.2013 18:29, Rob Weir wrote:
On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts <lui...@gmail.com> wrote:
No doubt many here have already noted this:
<https://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/open-xchange-launch-open-source-browser-based-office-suite-214882>
It's interesting. One could hope for possibilities of collaboration, license
permitting.
Our code is free for anyone to use, under a permissive license. But
it is not clear to me that our code would be particularly useful to
them.
For OX Text, we actually can't use any code of OOo…
Yeah, we came to that conclusion. Alas.
But for converting different kinds of documents, we make use of OOo in the
backend. We found and fixed some issues, and are contributing back the patches…
Thanks! I was also thinking, though Rob wasn't, and maybe Dennis wasn't either, that
there are other areas where collaboration, at least of the passive sort, can help the
overall ODF and "open source" community. For instance, localizations. One
could envision establishing a set of strings that can be used in common by relevant
applications. As well, as you probably recall, we have the Oasis OIC
(interoperability/compatibility) TC. Would be great to include OX Text there, at least
for starters, so that users can feel less concerned about vendor lockin.
Interop is a good point: When creating odt files, we already figured out
that ODF gives you more "choices" then it should. Result: One document
with lists and different kind off attributes looks different in AOO,
different in LO, and different in MSO. I can understand/expect the
difference between MSO and AOO/LO - but now even between AOO and LO?!
And then there are the mobile-users among us. I'm working with one very promising group that does
not use OOo technology but would be able to view/edit OOXML and ODF text; at least that's the idea.
Given the array of mobile options out there, and the fact that there is no good solution to mobiles
for enterprises, yet, and "enterprise" can include education and other public sector
efforts, I think there would be plenty of opportunity to "collaborate," if not on code
then on establishing a strong set of options that would break through the we-have-no-choice
mentality we all love to hate.
If you want to give me more details about the OOXML/ODF viewing stuff,
please come back on me via private email (but not the one I am using
here) or linkedin :)
Oh, then there is accessibility. You remember that, yes? :-)
I remember - I had so much fun with that ;)
But honestly: Accessibility is such an important and interesting (and
difficult) topic that I already volunteered to take care for that inside
OX too...
Malte.
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