Le Fri, 21 Feb 2014 11:03:43 -0800, Jonathon <[email protected]> a écrit :
> > > On February 21, 2014 6:30:41 AM PST, Jay Lozier wrote: > > >When I read the article I got the sense of MS FUD claiming that > >people "need" proprietary MS formats to be efficient. > > In one sense, MS is being "truthful". There is a huge ecosystem built > around Microsoft's file formats: CRM, ERP, and similar software. > However, there is nothing preventing the companies that create that > software from also supportingt ODF in their products. (NOTE: I am > assuming that Microsoft has not forced those vendors to sign > contracts that prohibit them supporting non-Microsoft file formats. > Given Microsoft's history, such a prospect is possible.) > > A second datapoint is that the major a11y vendors do not include > support for FLOSS in the offerings. (Two of the biggest vendors have > flat out promised that their software will never work correctly with > FLOSS program.) > > >I also sensed that MS is very concerned about losing the European > >market to FOSS and open standards/formats. > > Microsoft's issue with Europe is that unlike BRICS, bribes are more > likely to have the company put into goal, than achieve the desired > outcome. > > >governments believing they are doing the bidding of the US NSA. > > Any government that relies on any software produced by a foreign > firm, is a government that is subjecting itself to known security > flaws. Thank you everyone for your comments that have at the moment not helped the UK Gov make up its mind :-) May I suggest to everyone who'd like to help or express his/her views to post them directly on the UK Government Consultation website? That's where it'll have the most impact. Over here we're just preaching to the choir. Thank you, -- Charles-H. Schulz Co-founder, The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint Mobile Number: +33 (0)6 98 65 54 24. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
