Ian Lynch wrote: > On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 09:52 +0100, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann - Software > Engineer - Sun Microsystems wrote: > >> This project will increase the visibility of OOo through the ODF and >> will strengthen the position of the OOo community as the experts in ODF. >> Thus, a big +1 from me. > > There is also a downside to this in that the real benefit of ODF over MS > OOXML is that its seen to be multi-application. If the image is > projected that ODF is effectively controlled by OpenOffice.org (or > worse, Sun) and not OASIS, it will significantly weaken that advantage. > At the current state of play in the politics I'd play up the fact that > there is expertise in ODF in many applications and communities, > particularly when talking to governments.
In my understanding the toolkit idea is exactly the opposite. First the project is not about ODF - it's about providing tools to work with it. ODF is and will continue to be worked on in the OASIS TC. The toolkit will try to deliver code, building blocks and tools to people that want to use ODF without implementing it from scratch by themselves. And IMHO this will even foster the notion of OOo as a multi-application format! I know that a lot of people, companies and organizations would be very glad to have such a toolkit so that they could build their own applications and solutions to work with ODF. The idea to use a "leaner" OOo as a start (and so somewhat binding the ODF toolkit to the "classical" OOo code base) arises from the wish to have such a toolkit pretty soon. The final goal is to have something more modular, smaller and simpler than a complete OOo application, but this needs some time. Wether or not OOo itself will be built upon that toolkit is another interesting thing to discuss. At least I hope that this will happen. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
