On 10/6/05, Uri Even-Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, but we can't actually use the standard as long as the majority of > people can't read it. And they can't read it because they use MS > Office. You can't send a non-MS-Office-compatible files to such people. > It will not work. They will not install Open Office because of you > (at least in most cases, if they are not geeks).
Which just gave me an idea for the OO people - taking a page out of Firefox' book - provide an MS Office plugin which can read OO (or OpenDocument?) files so people can read it easely using their existing MS office. It has the advantage that it should be smaller (hopefully) and will be considered by most people as "just another plugin to our o-so-beloved-MS-office package", same as existing PDF writers. Another idea - provide a lightweight "reader" version of OpenOffice which will (also hopefully) be much lighter than the full-fledged package. MS used to provide FREE office readers (maybe they still do). --Amos ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
