Hi, well here's another way to look at it. If people want to buy MS Powerpoint, that's their choice. If you want people to view "your" slides that's your choice. If MS wants to ensure people have to buy MS Powerpoint to view ppt slides (not true) thats their choice. If you want to force people not to use MS power point to view "your" slides that's your choice.
At the end of it, you have taken the same choices that MS has. Arn't these choices the reason why people dislike the MS model ? Will people now not dislike your model too ? -kg On 22 Mar 2003, Tathagata Banerjee wrote: > you missed my point. providing the slides only in an open and free > format is not equivalent to shutting some people out. "OSS", as you call > it, is not a particular brand of software. the OOo file specifications > are there for everyone to study and use. that makes them not OOo file > formats specifically, but a freely available and well-documented file > format specification that can be used by any program. it is incidental > that only OOo is using it at present. i'm certain many free programs in > the future will adopt it rather than re-invent the wheel. so it is > actually proprietary software companies who disallow their customers to > view/use free data by refusing to relax their stranglehold on the > market. the only way to force them to do so will be not to come to any > compromise with them, while continuing to develop and disseminate > quality free software. -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
