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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Mar 24 15:58:26 +0000 2008 ------- i understand that supporting ooxml would benefit somewhat openoffice.org and that there is some demand to have it too, but there are on the other hand a lot of features that users would like to have implemented too (as the ones you are currently working on, pdf editing or native mac support, the first one being a way more demanded than ooxml, and there is already a ooxml plugin). supporting natively ooxml ties you to this format, and upgrades/corrections will be expected as soon as microsoft feels it's time to break things up. this results in having to spend a lot of time on it, time that could be spent on improving or supporting new features in openoffice.org. this tactic will be used by microsoft against competitors to slow them down and try to make them look as inviable alternatives, as it has always done since the 80'. plus you are somehow officially endorsing the ooxml format while it's being tried to have it considered as an interoperable format yet. i really think this makes more harm than it benefits users, and the whole community -including developers- on the long term. -i know i could we wrong here -we will see in 5 years if i was- but what is wrong in having it as plugin or optional feature if it might benefit us? is it not worth to try? ooxml shouldn't even be considered for interoperability, but for internal use by people that use microsoft's office suite. for interop we have already opendocument, made in consensus by all interested parties, even microsoft could have joined if it wanted. and as a plus we could say we weren't investigated by the european commision during the process as strange things were happening :) look: openoffice.org is being used by millions of persons around the world, governments are using it and adopting opendocument, large and medium sized enterprises use it, it's being given on 'freeware cd's' with newspapers, even startups, that ask us if it's ok to send everything in opendocument format, and we use it internally too. things are changing, openoffice.org is popular, and it's time to *act* as a leader. not only software development is needed, but strategics too. we are not in the 90' anymore. it is not desirable to stay behind microsoft anymore, and now they are being forced to interoperate and support opendocument it's time to stop following it's games, at least officially. i repeat: there are already plugins to support ooxml in openoffice.org, to keep everyone happy without any ties or endorsement i'm the first person who hates politics, but this is not only a question of what is technically better, if it were, microsoft would join us to improve opendocument. have you seen sony publishing anything on the recently killed hd-dvd? or windows supporting ext3? i really wish things wouldn't work this way, but they do. and we have now an opportunity we haven't had before --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
