This topic has revealed the following personal observations. People seem to want LO to be an exact clone of m$ where they can perform the same m$ tasks, produce the same m$ output, without paying m$. They happen to have a convenient choice in another product (LO) that perhaps is more attractive/intuitive to use, ideally producing m$ output so perfect that the recipient would be aware that LO was used. For such people, there is no interest in promoting or improving odf; their priority is to continue producing m$ format output to the detriment of odf. Having read the comments of those who wish LO to be a m$ clone (including the LO statement about m$ooxml), there is little evidence that the ability to create m$ format documents will _in any way_ lead to the increased quantity of odf documents; instead, there will be an increase in m$ format documents that have been created by LO. The result? Continued dominance of m$. Make no mistake, every LO user who saves a document in an m$ format instead of odf, is not promoting the odf at all, but killing it insiduously; new (probably entirely m$ OS) users are being enticed with this concept of "m$ output without the m$ price" when the bigger picture is odf to become the future default format.
The ability to import m$ formats and produce only native odf documents would be a good idea. Users would have a clear choice to make; either promote odf, or decide it is more important to produce m$ documents and therefore such people should simply buy m$. Of course, opponents of odf don't want to pay and therefore promote the "m$ is essential to me" viewpoint. Either pay m$, or donate the equivalent to LO to produce superior odf documents. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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
