On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 19:37:52 PM +0200, Tomas Lanczos
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> M. Fioretti wrote:
> >THE reason #1 why "many Fortune 500 companies don't adopt OOo yet"
> >is the simple fact that they still have to keep, modify and
> >exchange millions of legacy files in proprietary MS Office
> >formats. This is not going to change until governments demand the
> >usage of Opendocument...
>
> It's a bit more complicated, IMHO. The people in the govt. and also
> in most of the companies does not aware about the OOo, nor the
> FLOSS.
but they don't even _need_ to be aware of OOo. I said Opendocument,
not OOo. Demanding the adoption of OpenDocument as I described simply
means to realize that proprietary document **formats** are stupid and
bad at all possible levels and reject _those_ formats by law.
(something which as I said has already started to happen, in this way
and for these reasons).
Abandoning proprietary formats is what matters, much more than
abandoning MS Office. One thing doesn't imply the other. There is no
real reason why MS Office cannot fully support OpenDocument. And once
OpenDocument is required by law, that is once private and corporate
users _are_ guaranteed that they can use OpenDocument to interact with
governments:
* Fortune 500 companies or any other business will be much
more free to switch to OOo if they find it better for them
* nobody will care what Fortune 500 companies use anymore:
because communication/interoperability will be guaranteed by the usage
of one common, non proprietary formats. Do you care of what brand of
pens or paper IBM uses? No, because their hand-written or printed
documents are in the standard alphabet.
The real software freedom is being free to ignore which software the
others are using while still being free to communicate and work with
them without limitations. You don't need the whole world to switch to
OOo to make that happen, only to Opendocument.
Marco
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