On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 16:46 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: > <quote who="Con Zymaris"> > > > In fact, our best strategy would be to help in pushing back OOXML adoption > > and retarding OOXML adoption for as long as possible, specifically showing > > no signs of supporting OOXML until a very clear majority of the world's > > Microsoft Office users have adopted it. > > Yeah, I can totally see the market strength of ODF-supporting office suites > "retarding" the adoption of the Office 2007 file formats [1], > [1] Doesn't mean the same thing as OOXML.
no it doesnt, but that doesnt make it 'less bad'. if anything it makes it more of a problem for Free software. mmmm. "I cant belive its not butter." (Anyone familar with those ads?) > particularly > given that all (market-share relevant) previous versions of Microsoft Office > are capable of reading and writing them. Not 'off the bat' their not. it requires people to explicity go and install the update to office to enable it. > We're gonna make a *biiig* dent in > that, so we should definitely inconvenience current and potential users of > FLOSS products in the mean time. or do like they do now - "could you not send in [weird proprietary format of your choice], i cant open it". kk > > I mean, no one else is that bold! Who else would even come up with punching > their *own users* in the face in order to artificially win the market high > ground? > > Oh yeah... > > - Jeff > > -- > linux.conf.au 2008: Melbourne, Australia http://lca2008.linux.org.au/ > > Fierce Commerce. Fierce Freedom. Free Software. > -- Karl Goetz, Debian user / Ubuntu contributor / gNewSense contributor http://www.kgoetz.id.au
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