On 17/04/2012, webmaster-Kracked_P_P <[email protected]> wrote: > > Well, it is always good to promote ODF, but if you work in a business > environment, you cannot get away from MSO's file formats. I create the > documents in LO and save my copy in ODF, but I still have to send > editable files to some people who's business or agency has not or cannot > switch to LO. So for these people/businesses/agencies, I need to send > them MSO file formatted documents. >
You could send in odf, which m$ is supposed to support. Growth in the quantity of odf documents, together with people complaining to m$ (instead of complaining to LO!), the long term effect is to force m$ to improve compatibility with odf, _not_ vice versa! The analogy is one of the worse technologies: flash. Thankfully, successful marketing of apple products increased the quantity of non-flash devices and therefore the demand for other technologies, e.g. html5. > Promote LO and ODF, but you still have to deal with those who have not > switched over to LO and/or ODF. Most government agencies [USA] at all > levels are not "allowed" to use any other office package but MSO AND are > forbidden to install software on their computers, including > screen-savers and such. I know of one that will not allow the use of > USB devices as well. So, until everyone switches to ODF, we must > continue to save some of our documents to MSO formates and send them off > to others. > Such organisations were often forced to use m$ie6, whilst the world moved forward to using safari, opera, firefox, etc.. The world did not wait for m$ to improve their web browser! Therefore, the claim that everyone must simultaneously change to odf is a fallacy. -- 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
