Hi :) Ahh, cool. Since several OpenSource projects appear to be quite happy with the "Standards" then i trust it a little more. I'd have to look into some of those projects and see what they are saying about the standard though.
"Never believe anything until it's denied by a government minister". I guess some of you need to swap out gov minister and replace with senator or whatever. Regards from Tom :) >________________________________ > From: Adam Tauno Williams <awill...@whitemice.org> >To: users@global.libreoffice.org >Sent: Friday, 15 February 2013, 13:49 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Share-point? > >On Fri, 2013-02-15 at 13:31 +0000, Tom Davies wrote: >> Hi :) >> Hmmm, what worries me is "MS" and "Standards" in the same sentence. >> Haven't we already learned, many times over, that MS's idea of >> open = closed > >This is true for corporations, nothing specific to Microsoft. That is >why you need Open implementations and the ratification of a standards >body. CMIS has all these. > >> standards and interoperable = only works once on one system >> or at least that seems to be the way it has always worked out historically. > >Nope, that is already not true for CMIS. > >> So while it looks good i am fairly convinced there is a trap here >> somewhere even if i can't see it and don't already know about it. An >> OpenSource equivalent that uses the alleged 'standard' would be much >> more comforting. > >There *IS* Open Source implementations of CMIS. Alfresco is Open >Source. And there is even CMIS plugins for Drupal. There are several >other CMIS implementations, see the CMIS Wiki page - they even have a >column indicating if the implementation is Open Source or not. > >-- >Adam Tauno Williams GPG D95ED383 >Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA > > >-- >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
