Re: [tdf-discuss] ignore m$ legacy?

2011-07-22 Thread Ian Lynch
On 22 July 2011 02:06, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org wrote: On 07/21/2011 09:43 AM, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: On 21/07/2011 14:23, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: I am of the opinion that good inter-operability with MSO products makes it easier to attract new users and that

Re: [tdf-discuss] ignore m$ legacy?

2011-07-22 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 22/07/2011 02:06, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: On 07/21/2011 09:43 AM, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: On 21/07/2011 14:23, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: I am of the opinion that good inter-operability with MSO products makes it easier to attract new users and that poor inter-operability

Re: [tdf-discuss] disclaimer for extension website

2011-07-22 Thread Marc-André Laverdière
While that is certainly advisable, I think we need some good CYA. Some people in this sad sad world just like to sue. Marc-André Laverdière Software Security Scientist Innovation Labs, Tata Consultancy Services Hyderabad, India On 07/21/2011 11:57 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: I think the DMCA

[tdf-discuss] Re: disclaimer for extension website

2011-07-22 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2011-07-21 04:32, Florian Effenberger a écrit : Hello, I'd like to quote my colleague Thorsten Behrens on this: == With the upcoming extension website, we'll need some kind of click-through license agreement, for someone submitting software, and a disclaimer on the front page, refusing

Re: [tdf-discuss] ignore m$ legacy?

2011-07-22 Thread e-letter
On 21/07/2011, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org wrote: On 07/21/2011 08:47 AM, e-letter wrote: On 21/07/2011, Andrew Douglas Pitonyakand...@pitonyak.org wrote I am more comfortable in OOo than I am in MSO, so, I have created many MSO deliverables in OOo and LO. The only time that I

Re: [tdf-discuss] ignore m$ legacy?

2011-07-22 Thread e-letter
On 21/07/2011, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: Yes, don't confuse ODF compatibility with OpenOffice.org (or LibreOffice) compatibility. I was in the room on one occasion when Microsoft was asking for advice on their approach to ODF 1.1 Spreadsheet documents. Unfortunately,

Re: [tdf-discuss] ignore m$ legacy?

2011-07-22 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 22/07/2011 15:24, e-letter wrote: Fine. People are/should be free to choose whichever program they prefer. If someone likes the interface of m$o, good for them. The point of the original post, is that priority should be for LO performance in native odf to be better than m$o performance in

Re: [tdf-discuss] ignore m$ legacy?

2011-07-22 Thread Christophe Strobbe
At 02:33 21-7-2011, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: On 07/20/2011 05:02 PM, e-letter wrote: On the users mailing list, a significant proportion of a random view of questions seems to be with relation to using LO is some way with m$ document formats. (...) I might also conclude that there is

Microsoft ODF 1.1 Support (was RE: [tdf-discuss] ignore m$ legacy?)

2011-07-22 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
I don't find it credible that Microsoft would intentionally deviate in ways to break a format, considering the level of scrutiny they receive from regulatory authorities and everyone else. I find it more creditable that they didn't do a terrific job in their first effort and it might not have

Re: [tdf-discuss] ignore m$ legacy?

2011-07-22 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 07/22/2011 10:24 AM, e-letter wrote: On 21/07/2011, Andrew Douglas Pitonyakand...@pitonyak.org wrote: On 07/21/2011 08:47 AM, e-letter wrote: On 21/07/2011, Andrew Douglas Pitonyakand...@pitonyak.org wrote I am more comfortable in OOo than I am in MSO, so, I have created many MSO