"Shawn K. Quinn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> If you don't like ODF, please, feel free to continue trusting Microsoft > with your data. Eventually, you will lose the freedom to jump ship > thanks to the DMCA. It's not that simple a choice. The mere existence of OOo means that I don't have to trust microsoft with my data. I can set up a process to copy all my files to .sxw format or even .odt oce a week. Then I have copies that will still be legible in fifty years time, while the .doc originals are also -- and this is useful -- legible today by all the people with whom I do business. Obviously I care about being able to access my data in ten years' time. But I care still more about other people being able to access it ten minutes from now, and for that, like it or not, MS supplies the one editable standard. If ODF ever reaches that point, I will be happy to switch to it. For the moment though, it is _completely useless_ becasue the only two apps that can read it on Windows are OOo 2.0 and a plugin for Google Desktop Search. It is less use even that .sxw format, because quite a lot of disk indexing software will use > Microsoft only cares that you keep using their > products and giving them your money; they really don't care whether or > not you can use a competing product. Of course. How is this supposed to be uniquely wicked? Do linux zealots care whether anyone can use MS products? -- Andrew Brown The email in the header does not work. Contact details and possibly useful macros from http://www.darwinwars.com/lunatic/bugs/oo_macros.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
