A follow up-thought: As I google my way through history catching up on developments, I come across http://news.cnet.com/OpenDocument-goes-to-vote-in-Texas,-Minnesota/2100-7344_3-6157245.html this page reporting on ODF file format being made mandatory (to the exclusion of proprietary Microsoft formats) in several U.S. states. (It's from 2007.) Smart move!
My opinion is still in flux, but I'm beginning to think that for most users of office suite software, having an open document format is (or will be, after they give some thought to it) absolutely a make-or-break issue, much more important than who develops the actual software and how they do it, and that's where users interested in policy and advocacy should focus most of their effort. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/LO-OO-are-not-the-only-competitors-of-MSOffice-LO-could-also-make-a-simple-office-suite-that-runs-inS-tp2758623p2787413.html Sent from the Discuss mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
