On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 16:17 +0300, Lars Nooden wrote:
>> Anyway, the world has moved on from closed, proprietary office
>> formats.
On 6/23/10 4:43 PM, Ian wrote:
> Not fast enough!
Definitely not fast enough. We do see now which individuals and teams
are the obstacles and can deal with them as appropriate. Most of the
efforts to stymie open technology do go in the face of legal and
security mandates. They also tend to follow the same familiar patterns
and use the same tired excuses and methods.
If, as a marketing effort, the details of any barriers to OOo adoption
are sought, collected, and summarized, then debugging becomes that much
easier. There are not really any technical barriers and have not been
for a long time. There are a lot of competency, skill or social
barriers remaining in some dug-in areas. In the cases where there were
no barriers, then we have expanded the user base.
... the cloud ...
LOL. That's not an excuse to wait and do nothing.
That is not going to happen in a large government department where
the users have absolutely no say in what gets installed on the
network.
It will in the departments where the users *do* have say in what gets
installed.
Also, in the departments where there are competent IT staff, the moves
are already being made. Yes, the reality is that there are lots of the
other kind, especially malicious ones, but they are barriers that can be
dealt with if identified.
... On balance the better the filters, the more confidence there will
be to try using OOo...
For some users of some legacy applications. We also have to recognize
that there are three continents that have recently joined
... If there were no MS Word filters it would have been impossible
for our company to migrate to Open Source...
Obviously, then, we are in agreement that the existing work on the
filters for legacy document formats has been fruitful. Now is not the
time to stop moving forward from the old formats to ODF.
/Lars
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