[discuss] Re: Review of OOo in Washington Post

2005-11-13 Thread Randomthots
Ian Lynch wrote: If one app is going to be less good at file compatibility better for it to be Impress than Writer. Agreed. It depends who the audience is. Marketing is a selective communication with specific customers in specific market sectors. While ODF might be of no interest to some

[discuss] Re: Review of OOo in Washington Post

2005-11-13 Thread Randomthots
Alexandro Colorado wrote: Most of the things we already know, thats why we want to push the OpenDocument format as an open standard to stop playing catch up. If you want to play catch up forever you will end up devoting most of your developers to be back-engineering forever. Instead we shou

[discuss] Re: Review of OOo in Washington Post

2005-11-14 Thread John Thompson
On 2005-11-13, Randomthots <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ian Lynch wrote: >> If there are web browser >> viewers, editors, utilities galore in the next couple of years it will >> make a compelling case for adoption of OOo too. > Which is when marketing OOo as the ODF "reference app" will be really

Re: [discuss] Re: Review of OOo in Washington Post

2005-11-13 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 19:51:43 -, Randomthots <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I understand that. But the OOo homepage trumpets ODF like the second coming of Christ. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I would think the web presence is mostly targeted at the home and smb markets. The big-biz and

Re: [discuss] Re: Review of OOo in Washington Post

2005-11-13 Thread Chad Smith
On 11/13/05, Randomthots <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I agree with all that. I just think that promoting OOo and promoting ODF > are interlocking but still separate propositions. *At this point* > promoting OOo on the basis of ODF is non-starter. But the more OOo is > adopted, the easier it wil

Re: [discuss] Re: Review of OOo in Washington Post

2005-11-13 Thread Ian Lynch
On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 13:51 -0600, Randomthots wrote: > I understand that. But the OOo homepage trumpets ODF like the second > coming of Christ. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I would think the web > presence is mostly targeted at the home and smb markets. Not sure about that really. I should th

Re: [discuss] Re: Review of OOo in Washington Post

2005-11-13 Thread Ian Lynch
On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 13:54 -0600, Randomthots wrote: > I agree with all that. I just think that promoting OOo and promoting ODF > are interlocking but still separate propositions. That is why OpenDocument Fellowship exists as a separate entity. > *At this point* > promoting OOo on the basis