On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 11:54:27 AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, M. Fioretti wrote: >> "Novell-developer Michael Meeks finds strong words for Sun's >> management of the free office suite in an interview - Pushes for >> own OOo flavor" >> http://derstandard.at/?url=/?id=1216917892794 > ... > The enhancements that he and his gogo software (sounds like the > gogomobile!) have and intend to implement, include the promotion of > proprietary software, with contempt for users of systems that do not > include the proprietary software. > > The .docx file format should be shut out, for the malicious, > proprietary, exclusive, monopolistic creation that it is, authorised > by a standards organisation of now dubious integrity, in order to > appease massive commercial proprietary interests.
as far as I'm concerned, you're really preaching to the choir here :-) http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9594#mpart8 > the encouragement of the .docx file format by the gogo software > development, is just a cynical ploy I don't think _Meeks_ is plotting, but I've already written on other lists that I think he's really missing a big part of the picture and (in good faith) creating confusion when it comes to OpenXML / OpenDocument. > And, I wonder whether his gogo software, corrupts files, such as the > malicious corruption of HTML files, the same way that "Open Office" > 2.4.x corrupts the files, by maliciously inserting code, against the > wishes of the user, causing vi to be the preference for creating and > editing HTML files, as VI does not corrupt the files. Huh? What do you mean? HTML created by OOo (or any other office suite, afaict) is damn ugly and possibly not W3C compliant, but "corrupted by maliciously inserting code"??? Marco -- Your own civil rights and the quality of your life heavily depend on how software is used *around* you: http://digifreedom.net/node/84 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
