On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 15:08:28 PM -0500, Wm Stewart
([email protected]) wrote:
> It saddens me greatly to see OpenOffice friends who claim to be
> "open" minded show a "closed" mind on interoperability, blocking the
> complete success that is so near at hand, and we all wish.
>
> (Please don't respond to this post by trashing MS formats, the
> process by which they achieved ISO approval, or lauding the
> technical superiority of ODF as a standard.
OK. Then I'll only ask you ONE simple question: do you understand that
what you call "complete success" is simply impossible? Catching up
with Microsoft's (or any other proprietary) formats is a neverending
task, by definition. Should you reach "complete success" tomorrow, it
would only last until the moment Microsoft changes something in the
format, just to keep you in a hamster wheel.
Is it so hard to understand that until you play by the rules that
Microsoft and only Microsoft arbitrarily sets and can change in any
moment you can never achieve "complete success"?
If most (potential) users of OpenOffice still keep asking complete
compatibility with Microsoft file formats... to OpenOffice, instead of
Microsoft, which is the only one that defines those formats, it simply
means that they don't get this fact of life. It's not THEIR
fault, because the average basic, cultural education on these themes
is still below the minimum. But those facts remains.
Constructively intended,
Marco
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