On 04/16/2010 05:28 PM, Cor Nouws wrote:
I don't think it is reasonable or fair towards Bernard to somehow
suggest him being a colleague of MS guys.
Sorry, it must have been the content of his messages over time that gave
that illusion. We'll say it's a coincidence.
Regardless, the basics of the icons are a technical issue: it is a
visual indicator of a particular standard. Back when OOo/SO had their
own format, it made sense to have the icon visually tied to the
application.
OOo now uses ODF. It has used ODF since 2005 or so? IIRC, Koffice was
first to support ODF, but OOo was the first to use it as the default format.
http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/2.0/
http://opendocument.xml.org/milestones
There's a continual festival of disinformation about both the standard
format and about our application, OpenOffice.org. There is also a
suite that breaks ODF files so that they don't work properly with
OpenOffice.org. (Hint, it's not Symphony or Koffice.) Using icons tied
to *any* application to indicate a standard format implies that there
are local flavors or variations on that format, thus implying that
incompatibility is not just expected but normal.
The OOo community has worked a lot on interoperability and that is one
of the products strengths.
Regards
/Lars
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