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

2011-07-30 Thread Mark Preston
Frankly, I'm sure the law just says copies must be kept and doesn't care how they are kept. The point is that they *will* be kept on secured digital media, which means MSO, which means they will need a copy of MSO, which means they will not need a copy of LibO. That was rather my point. We cannot

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

2011-07-30 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 03:05:18PM +0100, e-letter wrote: > This topic has revealed the following personal observations. > ..snip. > > The ability to import m$ formats and produce only native odf documents > would be a good idea. Users would have a clear choice to make; ei

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

2011-07-30 Thread e-letter
This topic has revealed the following personal observations. People seem to want LO to be an exact clone of m$ where they can perform the same m$ tasks, produce the same m$ output, without paying m$. They happen to have a convenient choice in another product (LO) that perhaps is more attractive/in

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

2011-07-30 Thread toki
On 07/30/2011 01:35 PM, e-letter wrote: Such people should be buying m$; Your false assumption is that M$ provides a version of MSO for the platform that is being used. >if they cannot afford m$ why are they in business??? Possibilities include: * Startup; * The office-suite is a non-essen

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

2011-07-30 Thread toki
On 07/30/2011 01:33 PM, e-letter wrote: Why wouldn't users simply keep an old version of m$? a) The old version of M$ won't run on their current operating system; b) The license for the old version of M$ expired; jonathon -- If Bing copied Google, there wouldn't be anything new worth request

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

2011-07-30 Thread e-letter
On 27/07/2011, Fernand Vanrie wrote: > Andrew , Others > > I agree with the point of view of Andrew. > Please make LO OPEN as maximum as possible different formats. I say > open not SAVE as... > We are a Editing House where our 30 fulltime journalists using OO > (forced by us), the more than

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

2011-07-30 Thread e-letter
On 23/07/2011, Mark Preston wrote: > Look, lets be honest about this - Microsoft has by far the largest > proportion of legacy documents out there and there is no way that > people can manage without access to those documents. Apart from > anything else, the law will require them to be kept and av

Re: [tdf-discuss] Gmane sending issues

2011-07-30 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Ken Springer wrote on 2011-07-30 14:00: Original message and this reply sent via Thunderbird 5.0 after signing up for the mailing list. do you use the same mail address at GMANE as you are subscribed with to this list? Quoting from http://www.documentfoundation.org/contribution/ :

Re: [tdf-discuss] Gmane sending issues

2011-07-30 Thread Ken Springer
Hi, Florian,On 7/30/11 2:28 AM, Florian Effenberger wrote:Hi,Ken Springer wrote on 2011-07-29 23:47:If Gmane was working correctly for me, sending a text only message to the mailing list would be simple.So I hope this comes out OK.:-(I can't get sending of messages to any of t

Re: [tdf-discuss] Gmane sending issues

2011-07-30 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Ken Springer wrote on 2011-07-29 23:47: If Gmane was working correctly for me, sending a text only message to the mailing list would be simple.So I hope this comes out OK.:-(I can't get sending of messages to any of the Document Foundation newsgroups to work.The message are in my