> > Jiri: Both of these people work for professional organizations where the > organizations have settled on the .docx format as their default document > format. For one of these people, installing LibreOffice at his > university is simply not an option for now. The other person works for a > large music organization that has also settled on MSO although she is > advocating LibreOffice with some sort of success, but not yet endorsed > by the organization. >
The fact that these organisation chose to use m$ in instead of odf is of their own right to do. Making their lives easier using m$ is of _no benefit_ to LO. > Tom: Both of these people are already exporting their files in .doc or > .pdf files. The problem with this is that they now have a ton of files > that have been doubled; they are both at the admin levels of their > organizations and have very active roles in committees. > Nothing to do with LO. Are these people using LO with authorisation from those who decided to use m$ by default? The duplication of documents in multiple formats is entirely the responsibility of the organisation; nothing to do with LO. > Being able to "Send" more than one file at a time would eliminate > completely the need to export physical files to hardrives. > They should have thought about this before deciding upon m$! > I was thinking if LibreOffice were able to do this, then people would > grow to depend on the ODF file formats more and view any other file > format as being less important. The perception to users would be that > ODF formats are the "defacto" format and other are really "sub-formats" > to the defacto OFD formats. > Total nonsense. The only result would be: "fantastic, we can continue to use LO as a m$ clone and increase the proliferation of m$ file formats" Even m$ would find that scenario (m$ documents being created by LO) preferable to an increase in quantities of odf documents being distributed. Lack of strategic analysis is preventing growth in the use of odf... -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
