Dear Larry, First of all I want to apologize for my lack of English skills. I'm not native English speaking so if the words are a little clumpsy, please bear with me :-)
I disagree with you of two reasons: 1) LibreOffice is free software. If any developer wants to improve the code - he or she has the freedom to do so. I think this is one very important stand. We have seen other products in the marked licensed as open source but that are not free software. Who should decide what what is 'good' and what is 'bad' code? Nobody. Because LibreOffice is free software! We are not building a cathedral are we? Not because the bazaar works fine for us. 2) No matter what we say or do, there are two document standards approved by ISO. I guess (!) that most of us engaged in the Document Foundation can agree that two standards are one two many. Never the less: OOXML is a standard. If we decide not to support it we will see status quo in marked situation: MS having 95+ % of the marked share. MS will claim that they support both standards and we are not in the loop able to claim otherwise. If we support OOXML (I don't say that we should hurry) we will be able to take marked shares from MS and more important: We are in the loop! We can speak up and tell ISO what is wrong with OOXML. we will be able to find all the faults and we will be heard. We can talk to politicians about the core problems because we are implementing it. I my self are doing that right now. I have spoken to politicians and the are listening to me - because we are implementing it. Because we are actually getting working with it. I am living in a country that has chosen two standards. By working with it we can help other regions not to make the same mistake. But if we say "we wil not this" and "we will not that" our only achievement will be that nobody will listen to what we are saying. Supporting OOXML is not supporting MS. It is exposing their dirty laundry! We don't need to hurry! Of cause we must economize our resources and supporting OOXML will never become our main focus. We have an office suite to create ;-) Cheers, Leif Den 30-12-2010 18:27, Larry Gusaas skrev: > I will not support or use LibreOffice > until it stops helping spread OOXML by enabling writing in this file > format. There is absolutely no need to write in this proprietary > format. To do so is contrary to the principle of using ODF and open > source formats. > > See the following: > http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=2493&p=169740#p169507 > > http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20101219121621828 > > Unless this changes I will strongly advocate in the support groups I > participate the people stay with OpenOffice.org and not switch to > LibreOffice. > > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
