On 7/23/07, Amir E. Aharoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 23/07/07, DanTrevino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 7/23/07, Amir E. Aharoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Writing documents and university papers can't get much better than > > > MS-Office, OpenOffice, TeX and DocBook. Each of them caters rather > > > well to their respective markets (except some interoperability issues, > > > which are really rather minor if you put the bizness bullshit aside.) > > > > That little interoperability thing IS important. Open standards are > > critical to a true free exchange of ideas. > > Of course it is - but there is no real engineering problem; it's > *business bullshit*. > > And of course the public perception of "openness" - the public doesn't > care how open the specs are, they just want their documents to work, > NOW and unfortunately Microsoft uses it very well. > > But i was trying to talk about a much larger scale... >
Fair enough, I think we agree. I misunderstood your "interoperability issues, which are really rather minor..." statement. It sounds to me like you're saying interoperability is not an issue. -- Microsoft has a majority market share https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
