Chad Smith wrote:
On 10/27/05, Robin Laing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
MS makes a "defacto" standard. It is not recognized as a standard.
It has not been submitted to any standards organization. It is not a
standard. ODF is being submitted to ISO, the same people that do the
ISO9000 standardization.
Defacto standard is really the only one that matters. If a law is on the
books, but never enforced, it's not really a law. Just because some
self-appointed body of "experts" says "Hey this thing is a standard!" - if
it's never used, it's not really a standard. But, if 95% or more of people
use a certain thing a certain way, then that's pretty much standardized.
-Chad Smith
Gee, why am I not suprised you would have something pro MS to say.
Defacto standard does not matter, A real standard matters, that is why
so many companies (except MS) are happy about ODF. As long as there
are people like you that seem to think it does not matter, then it will
not matter. ODF is OOo default file format, that is not going to
change, but the nice thing now is that with OASIS and hopefully ISO
standardizing it, it will make life easier on all of us people that do
not want to keep buying MS software.
You may not have trouble with documents that you create and older
versions of MS software, but for people, like me, that use really
complex spreadsheets the information does not transport from one version
to the next very well, and it will never go from one program to the next
very well, but if the programs use the same format then it should not
be a problem.
I do not understand why you keep coming to the OOo site and spending
time on something that you do not promote at all and only seem to jump
in and say something when you are defending MS. I do not care if MS
stays around or goes away, but I want to be able to send someone
something in the program I use and them not have trouble using it in the
program that they use.
and just so you know, just because a law is not enforced now does not
mean that it won't be later, so it is still a law.
OASIS has been creating standards for over 10 years. and the people
that are on the committee, unlike you, are experts
no need to put that word in quotes. If you think you are smarter than
the 400+ members of OASIS, then lets see what you would do to make all
office program files work together.
James
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