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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Mar 23 20:08:16 +0000 2008 ------- let me draw this scenario, as this is all a strategical issue: if opendocument remains as the open standard document that is being adopted already by governments and large enterprises, microsoft will have to support it well in ms-office. they are trying to avoid this pressure and we are helping them by supporting their own format. this is a chance we have never had before, and we are risking to loose it if ooxml is supported and considered an open standard, microsoft could forget supporting opendocument and would lobby to have it's own format accepted too, it will complain and ask for "neutrality" to governments. and if they break it, as they usually do, and openoffice.org doesn't operate well with ms-office created documents, we are to blame. this is what microsoft has done in the past and what it is trying to do yet. i really do want to pressure microsoft to adopt open standards, and the only way is to have them support opendocument or any other format they have to implement themselves. microsoft has to change, not us. they are doing always nasty things not us. they have to adopt standards not us! look at microsoft: they haven't even accepted the existence of linux until internal papers were filtered to the public to let all know that they were considering it a threat. and we are not only doing this, we are supporting them! do we really trust them? again? --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
