I am a TDF Director and one of the official spokespersons.
e-letter wrote > > >> In other words, do not waste LO programmers' time to resolve your desire >> to use LO as a free m$o clone. > > You are assuming something completely wrong here. In the future, please > avoid such statements, and - even more important - please listen to people > on this mailing list who seem to be better informed than you are. > > TDF developers are working hard to improve the level of interoperability > with many file formats, because we want LibreOffice to be both the best > implementation of ODF (a format that we want to be the standard for > electronic documents) and the most interoperable office suite. > > Users are free to use LibreOffice to read and write RTF and DOC/XLS/PPT > files (and even DOCX/XLSX/PPTX files), although they should understand > that only ODF will provide the best level of document interoperability, as > it is the native LibreOffice file format and it is also supported by the > latest versions of MS Office for Windows. > > Of course, users should also understand that proprietary formats like RTF > and legacy MS Office formats have been developed in order to lock them in > into using MS Office, and should avoid the formats not because they are > intrinsically bad (although they often are) but because they intentionally > reduce their freedom. > > Although user habits could let many user think that MS Office legacy > formats are the most practical for interoperability, they should not > overlook the fact that by sticking to MS Office legacy format they > perpetuate their lock in into Microsoft products. > > TDF is actively promoting ODF, which is the format of choice for all > actual and future versions of LibreOffice. ODF is not only open and > standard, but is also easier to implement than other ISO standard formats. > For instance, OOXML has been approved as ISO standard in 2008, but after > almost four years is still implemented in the non standard "transitional" > version even by Microsoft (the company behind the original format) because > of the incredible complexity of the format (confirmed by the length of the > documentation of over 7.200 pages, i.e. almost six times as many as the > ODF documentation). > > This incredible complexity is a new form of lock in, as it makes extremely > difficult to reproduce the file format. LibreOffice, on the other way, > represents the best third party implementation of OOXML. > >> If you want to contribute towards reaching a future when "most of the >> world" are at least _aware_ of odf, you should: >> (a) send documents in pdf to view or odf to edit and tell your recipients >> about your use of LO to produce your documents >> in pdf & odf; > (b) send documents in odf and tell your recipients that >> such documents will be visible in m$o but the >> quality will be poor, otherwise recommend use of LO to view/edit document >> to high quality. > > I think that LibreOffice advocates should promote ODF by suggesting them > to install LibreOffice, in order to get all the benefits of a truly open > and standard format as ODF, but should also respect the choice of people > who are not willing to change their office suite. Of course, if these > people are still using MS Office 2003, it is easy to explain that > LibreOffice provides a very similar user experience while offering a large > number of new features and security updates. > > -- > For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/can-I-make-Libre-default-to-save-as-rtf-tp3527035p3533757.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
