On Tuesday 15 May 2012 14:30:37 Peter C. Ndikuwera wrote: > But don't you see that this is the big problem? You want to force users to > change how they work to suit how you develop.
I'm tryin to get results at the least costs. > (And isn't MS's XML format > published as well? I hesitate to say "open") The problem is it's transiency. Microsoft tends to add "features" (and change them as well). They do not managed to to make a open standard of it, and that tells a lot regarding the power of Microsoft in the business. > Are you going to convince the standard idiot user who uses Word that they > have to save as ODF? What about the 3000 documents he has on his hard disk > that are in Word (and that open in just about every version of Word since > Word XP [albeit with the Office 2007 addin]) How many ODF documents do you > estimate fly around the web? How many Word93 Documents fly around the web? Users are trapped in it, that true, and to make odf the standard company format needs a decision from the top. Those decision makers can somtimes barely distinguish a pc from a washing machine, never learned to calculate the operation costs of a IT landscape. > Same for Latex. Not really, as Latex documets tend to be published as pdf documents on the net. There is a notable count of pdf documents on the net. On the other hand, even when the LaTeX format is more sustaining then office formats, to use it in a commercial environment i would call a "interesting academic study". > German => Polish is a bit of a silly example. US English Libre Office can't > open US English Word Document. Word freezes Windows while opening a word document is not a silly example but a very serious problem. To make it more clear: imagine windows freezing while u try in Kampala to open a word document sent to u from Mbarara, created with the very same release of word, just created using the Runyankole version while u try to open it using the Luganda version. That how u have to see that. Data exchange over a border in Europe using Microsoft software became tricky with Windows95, it eased with the time, but is still not always trivial. Okello -- Separating code and design in websites http://www.uHTML.info _______________________________________________ The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: [email protected] Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them in any way.
