On 25/11/2011, Italo Vignoli <[email protected]> wrote: > > Unfortunately (for you and the people who share the same idea), history > shows that going face to face against Microsoft is the wrong strategy. >
Cannot see how active promoting odf instead of passive promotion of m$ is a wrong strategy. > > 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). > The fact is a significant proportion of users have no interest in promoting odf; their primary personal benefit is their ability to use LO to send m$ formats to recipients. > 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. > This is weak; did youtube fail because initially web browsers did not have flash plug-in technology? No, the content was so strong, flash became a de facto multimedia standard driven by user demand. -- 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
