On 11/25/11 11:01 AM, e-letter wrote: > What exactly is being assumed? Better informed about what? The > original statement is merely a declaration of personal interest; a > preference that limited time spent resolving "compatibility" is > instead spent improving native odf.
Well, if is a declaration of personal interest, please state this. > Review the bug reports and the mailing list posts; it can be seen that > users do not appreciate the strategic error in using LO to create m$ > documents. Of course, bug reports and mailing lists reflect the more vocal people, who seems to be biased towards going face to face against Microsoft. Unfortunately (for you and the people who share the same idea), history shows that going face to face against Microsoft is the wrong strategy. OOXML has been approved in his rotten version because there have been people (and companies) going face to face against Microsoft instead of adopting a different strategy. With Microsoft, you have to play "David against Goliath", because in any other way Microsoft is going to outpower any other company (including IBM), just because they have got the IBM lesson (FUD and lobby) and made it better. Again, history has demonstrated that guerrilla marketing strategies are more effective than traditional ones. You are free to choose war, but we are not going to follow you (at least until we have been elected directors of the foundation by the members). > See comment above. Without forcing novice users to either pay m$ or > use a free(dom) alternative, odf usage will remain low. I have written exactly the opposite of what you understand (I am not a native English speaker, so is my fault). I have written that users who know the advantages of ODF should become evangelists of the format and suggest to other users to use ODF, because MS Office reads and writes ODF (although in a limited way). Pissing off users by sending them formats that they are not able to read (most users do not even know the concept of file formats), will not achieve any result other than alienating the reputation of the software used to produce the unreadable formats. -- Italo Vignoli - [email protected] phone +39.348.5653829 - VoIP +39.02.320621813 skype italovignoli - gtalk [email protected] -- 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
