Hi :) Thanks for the boost in morale there! Regards from Tom :)
>________________________________ > From: Mirosław Zalewski <mini...@poczta.onet.pl> >To: users@global.libreoffice.org >Sent: Wednesday, 28 November 2012, 15:14 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Good Article for >LibreOffice > >On 28/11/2012 at 15:55, "VA" <cuyfa...@hotmail.com> wrote: > >> That may be >> the hazard of having a truly open and standard file format. It eliminates >> a program's ability to survive. > >This is far from truth. > >Take a look at e-mail protocols: POP3 and IMAP. Do we have only two e-mail >server apps and two e-mail client apps, one for each? No. We have plenty of >servers and tons of clients. > >Take a look at XMPP messaging protocol (this is what Gmail and Facebook uses >for their chats). Again: plenty of servers, tons of apps. > >Take a look at BitTorrent file sharing protocol. There are many clients for >every platform. > >We have standards for HTML and CSS, yet there are at least four competing web >browsers out there (although there was time when market was monopolized). > >This list can go on. > >Standard file formats are pretty much irrelevant to program's ability to >survive. It's number of features, availability on certain OS, UI, branding, >number translations and other things which are around standards that matters. >-- >Best regards >Mirosław Zalewski > >-- >For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org >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 > > > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org 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
