On Sat, 2006-05-06 at 00:18 +0200, Cor Nouws wrote: > Flames? What flame ;-) > > OK. If there are different ideas, approaches, maybe they can co-excist. > Contribute both in their own way to the development of our free > soft-eco-system with an important role for OOo to play? > > In that case it is nice to know a little of each other, so that public > actions have more change to enforce to both sides, than to clash. > > (definitely bad English, hopefully understandable enough ;-) )
Good enough Cor! I'm not into flame wars, I too think that strategy is important and that all FLOSS advocates should work together. Consider E-mail attachments. Why does virtually no-one send ODF attachments but many people send .doc attachments? Because if I send .doc the recipient will be able to open it whether they Use MSO or OOo. If MSO can open ODF files suddenly I can send ODF attachments without worrying whether or not the person I'm sending them to has OOo. A very good way of getting people to know about OOo would be to send them attachments in ODF, suddenly everyone has heard of ODF. I think MS realise this and they are therefore in a difficult position. Support ODF and they probably put a nail in their own coffin, resist ODF and risk losing government contracts and probably someone will do an ODF import plug in in any case. >From a marketing point of view OOo can afford to use this to its own advantage. To get in the main stream press its much more likely to be on a human interest rather than a technological angle so company winners and losers and David v Goliath etc The Why? campaign also has elements of this too which is why its a strong campaign idea. -- Ian Lynch www.theINGOTs.org www.opendocumentfellowship.org www.schoolforge.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
