On 2011/07/23 1:01 PM Malte Timmermann wrote:
On 23.07.2011 07:09, Graham Lauder wrote:
...I suspect that the original reasoning behind the
ODF thing was a corporate strategy to wave OOo as the primary
application for producing compliant ODF documents. The trend,
especially in Europe, was towards mandating ODF in Govt and so they
wanted to ride the coattails of that move.
Actually it was the other way round: We wanted to promote and strengthen ODF.
At the cost of functionality when you eliminated the colours that easily distinguished the
different file types. All this was done despite the huge objections both before and especially
after the this horrendous design decision was imposed on the community by the ODF oligarchy.
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