This discussion began on the list. I'd like to keep it there. On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 16:34, Russell Davies wrote: > ; Its significantly better. We're using an open documented format, that > ; any application can support should it wish to. > ; > ; Even better, we're using a tool designed for the job, unlike HTML. > ; OpenOffice has proper mechanisms for tracking changes in a document, far > ; better support for a print oriented documents, spreadsheet functions, > ; mail merging, etc. > > you obviously don't have a unix background. monolithic tools suck. You > use smaller specialised tools for such tasks.
You obviously know very little about OpenOffice > ; Then he can: > ; * Unzip the document and edit it with a text editor > ; * Use XSLT to convert it to another format > ; * Pay someone to implement OpenOffice on his platform. > ; * Port OpenOffice to his platform himself > ; > ; There's only a slightly greater chance Weirdos 3.14 will have a > ; standards compliant web browser. > ; > nonsense -- there's a far greater chance. WWW _is_ the Internet as far > as most people are concerned. I'll paste part of that phrase again > ; standards compliant web browser. Note the first two words. Unfortunate reality of life: MSHTML may be, and likely is, more popular than HTML on the web. > You still haven't addressed the > other benefits of HTML, (a single read-only up-to-date version. convenience > of passing a 10 character pointer to my cv to people) And you couldn't do that with OpenOffice how? Mike -- ____________________________________________________________________________ Mike MacCana Consultant RHCE, MCSE, MCP+I Cybersource: Providing Quality IT Professional Services for 11 Years Specialists in Unix/Linux, TCP/IP and Web Application Development Level 4, 10 Queen St, Melbourne. Ph : 03 9621 2377 Fax: 03 9621 2477 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
