On ה', 2005-10-06 at 21:09 +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: > 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
Which page? If you're referring to IE View, you're talking about the opposite: being able to view MS documents in your Free software _by using already-installed MS software_. If a person already has MS Office, he can just as well use it to open the Word documents. > provide an MS Office plugin which can read > OO (or OpenDocument?) files so people can read it easely using > their existing MS office. Have it ever occured to you that not all word processors are the same? OO Writer is not intended to be item-by-item copy of MS Word, and therefore both programs have some exclusive features. How will this "OO plugin for MS Word" convert features which are unique to OO Writer? Rick Schaut of the Microsoft Mac Word team has put it pretty well in this blog entry: http://blogs.msdn.com/rick_schaut/archive/2005/09/29/475510.aspx P.S. This discussion is getting *so* redundant. Yes, it's harder using the less popular solution. Yes, often software developed by volunteers or a smaller staff will be of lesser quality. For example, Microsoft has a dedicated full-time performance team. OpenOffice has some brave hacker coming in to try and speed up its' startup once in a few years. If software freedom is meaningless to you, 95% of the time non-free software gives you higher value (assuming you have the money :) ================================================================= 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]
