On 09/10/2011 03:28 PM, Anthony Papillion wrote:
I've been thinking a lot about this lately as many of my clients are coming to
LibreOffice from Microsoft Office and I deal with both packages quite a bit.
Many times, one of the first things I do once LibreOffice is set up is to show
clients how to save in Microsoft format as opposed to .odf. It's actually one
of the first questions they ask. Lately, I've been wondering about the wisdom
of an open source package actively supporting a secret format like the Office
ones.
Would it not be preferable to support *only* saving in the open document format
and then providing a plugin for Microsoft Office users who needed it? IMHO,
allowing users to save in secret formats just continues the problem. They're
still using proprietary software, just packaged a different way.
Thoughts?
I know very few people that are able to function without the ability to
read or produce a DOC type file. Consider how it would affect you if you
could no longer read/write text files, CSV files, PDF files, any graphic
image other than say PNG.
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Andrew Pitonyak
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