On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 08:53:13 AM -0400, Wm Stewart
([email protected]) wrote:
> OpenOffice could be the world standard very quickly if it solved
> what users say is the number one barrier to widespread adoption.
> Slides 26 and 30 of this presentation show that the feature OO users
> *themselves* most need is complete compatibility with MS formats:
this is impossible BY DEFINITION. And it has been already explained
many many times. You CANNOT achieve and maintain 100% compatibility
with a format that YOUR competitor can change at whim every time
you're over 95% compatibility. Period.
The first feature that the OO users asking 100% compatibility with MS
formats must achieve IN THEMSELVES is understanding and acceptance of
this concept.
The only way to achieve and maintain sufficient compatibility is to
get rid of the very concept that MS formats must continue to be
tolerated for NEW documents: demand law and regulations that mandate
OpenDocument as the only acceptable interchange and long storage
format of all public documents and the problem will solve itself.
If the people you must work with are addicted to some drug, the only
effective way to keep working with them in the long term is not to
take the same drug while asking for some antidote. It is to force/help
the drug addicts to realize their conditions and get out of it for
good. See here why I am speaking of drug addiction:
http://stop.zona-m.net/node/198
HTH,
Marco
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