Re: The crux with 2 open standards for more or less the same thing

2013-10-30 Thread Oliver-Rainer Wittmann
Hi, On 29.10.2013 20:05, Andrew Rist wrote: On 10/28/2013 12:38 PM, Jörg Schmidt wrote: Hello, From: Andrea Pescetti [mailto:pesce...@apache.org] That is the reason why we will start to investigate in a better OOXML support for AOO and you will probably notice some more activity in the

Re: The crux with 2 open standards for more or less the same thing

2013-10-30 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, The OpenDocument format (ODF) which has it's roots in OpenOffice is a good thing and it helped a lot that office productivity becomes a little bit more transparent and a step forward to become vendor

Re: The crux with 2 open standards for more or less the same thing

2013-10-29 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, The OpenDocument format (ODF) which has it's roots in OpenOffice is a good thing and it helped a lot that office productivity becomes a little bit more transparent and a step forward to become vendor

Re: The crux with 2 open standards for more or less the same thing

2013-10-29 Thread Andrew Rist
On 10/28/2013 12:38 PM, Jörg Schmidt wrote: Hello, From: Andrea Pescetti [mailto:pesce...@apache.org] That is the reason why we will start to investigate in a better OOXML support for AOO and you will probably notice some more activity in the future going in this direction. Excellent. A

Re: The crux with 2 open standards for more or less the same thing

2013-10-29 Thread Kay Schenk
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Andrew Rist andrew.r...@oracle.comwrote: On 10/28/2013 12:38 PM, Jörg Schmidt wrote: Hello, From: Andrea Pescetti [mailto:pesce...@apache.org] That is the reason why we will start to investigate in a better OOXML support for AOO and you will probably

The crux with 2 open standards for more or less the same thing

2013-10-28 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
Hi, The OpenDocument format (ODF) which has it's roots in OpenOffice is a good thing and it helped a lot that office productivity becomes a little bit more transparent and a step forward to become vendor independent. Ideally one standard would have been used and would evolve over time to address

Re: The crux with 2 open standards for more or less the same thing

2013-10-28 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Jürgen Schmidt wrote: We can now argue why do we have 2 standards and can discuss the pros and cons. But does it help? I don't think so and I believe we have to live with the current situation. Sure. And we are quite used to useless duplication anyway... That is the reason why we will start

Re: The crux with 2 open standards for more or less the same thing

2013-10-28 Thread Jörg Schmidt
Hello, From: Andrea Pescetti [mailto:pesce...@apache.org] That is the reason why we will start to investigate in a better OOXML support for AOO and you will probably notice some more activity in the future going in this direction. Excellent. A better Microsoft compatibility is

Re: The crux with 2 open standards for more or less the same thing

2013-10-28 Thread Hagar Delest
Le 28/10/2013 20:38, Jörg Schmidt a écrit : Hello, From: Andrea Pescetti [mailto:pesce...@apache.org] That is the reason why we will start to investigate in a better OOXML support for AOO and you will probably notice some more activity in the future going in this direction. Excellent.

Re: The crux with 2 open standards for more or less the same thing

2013-10-28 Thread Jörg Schmidt
From: Hagar Delest [mailto:hagar.del...@laposte.net] I still believe that MS will *never* agree with a real standard. That would be the end of their lock-in policy and the loss of their market shares. Yes, that's a problem, and it is a primarily a 'political' problem. But there are also

Re: The crux with 2 open standards for more or less the same thing

2013-10-28 Thread Kay Schenk
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, The OpenDocument format (ODF) which has it's roots in OpenOffice is a good thing and it helped a lot that office productivity becomes a little bit more transparent and a step forward to become vendor independent.