On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 13:22:25 PM -0400, Twayne wrote: > Right. When sending documents, if the recipient's capabilities are > known, the sender should try to accomodate.
Why propagate a virus? Because that is what sending out files in proprietary formats amounts to. Of course, there are a lot of cases when it is simply impossible to make recipients acknowledge that they are perpetuating a disease and change their ways, so the sender has no other choice than try to accomodate. But it shouldn't happen unless one has tried to do things right or knows FOR SURE, in advance, that there is no hope. One of such cases is at the bottom. > It's better for one person to make mods than for possibly several to > accomodate the one. very wise words in general, not in this specific case. This is exactly the attitude that allowed Microsoft to lock everybody in (even if yes, I do know that there is no choice in many practical cases, it's just that one should know exactly what the problem is). > In additon, SUN also provides an add-in for MS Office that will > allow Word to open Writer documents to work on them. I find it > curious no one mentioned it. "we wanted to send ODF files only, but the MS Office plugins for MS Office are only available for the newest version of that suite; almost all our correspondants have oldest versions (some still run Office 97) so we have to stick to .doc for now..." this is what a Public Administration officer told me at this conference just one week ago: http://mfioretti.com/feltre-file-formats-and-pluralism-ict Ciao, Marco F. -- Your own civil rights and the quality of your life heavily depend on how software is used *around* you: http://digifreedom.net/node/84 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
