On 04/20/2010 10:51 PM, James E. Lang wrote:
My first reaction while still reading this proposal was the same as
Noop's. That is because I had not read the whole proposal yet.
Jean-Baptiste's proposal has great merit. My experience with files that
needed to be available for a Windows user but that I wanted to keep in
odf for the master copy is that I need to _remember_ to save the file
twice after each update. This is because a Save As ... operation is
considered to be equivalent to a Save operation and thus when closing
the file OOo does not prompt me to either Save or Discard my updates.
Exporting the file as .doc or .xls gets around this problem.
I heartily support this proposal.
+1 I had to think about it a long time, too.
It looks to me like the idea is to ensure that it is as simple and clear
as possible to keep the original as ODF.
The save / save as dialogs regarding the format are also a bit unclear,
but I have not thought of any better alternative to the wording we
currently have.
And since this is a discussion, one of the monopolies we are having
problems with is the monopoly on office formats. Steering people away
from ODF helps re-inforces that monopoly, making it harder to use OOo.
It also increases the revenue available to our competition, because
having a monopoly results (or is defined by) being able to set the
prices far above the proper market value.
/Lars
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