On 9/22/05, Johan Vromans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Robin Laing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > [...] you miss one point about standards. They are documented and > > readable. > > Standards are there for information exchange. Therefore, good practice > requires that there are (at least) two independent implementations of > the standard. > > (This is what is severely missing with the OpenDoc (OOo2) standard.) > > -- Johan >
That's what I mean, we've got, what? Two office suites using OpenDocument? And really, neither one is using them for real yet. OOo 2.0 (that great mythilogical beast) *will* use it, but KOffice doesn't yet, and OOo doesn't yet. And when they do, what is that - maybe 10% of the market share (which I highly doubt, but that number was quoted to me eariler). But that just means 10% of the market share will have access to it - not actually use it in everyday life. And, in fact, that is assuming that everyone who uses KOffice and OOo now instantly updates to the latest version (which, historically speaking, not nearly all of them will - how many still have MSO 97 or OOo 1.0?). Single digit market share does not a standard make. -Chad
