I think my point, apparently not clear, was that governments themselves would say, "We will only *use* software that meets these criteria." I don't support governments mandating file types, or intervening in my private business. However, they are by far the "biggest elephant in the room," and if, for example, the USGovt would say, "Folks, we love your software, but we will only buy it if it produces file types that are compatible with the following...." then MSO and others would do that, because they need sales as much as the next company. And about the govt being involved in the computer world, and the internet...anybody remember DARPA?? And DARPAnet?? Steve
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Mirosław Zalewski <mini...@poczta.onet.pl>wrote: > On 19/11/2012 at 15:52, "VA" <cuyfa...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > I think there's a difference between "standards" as declared by computer > > developers and societies and "standards" determined by the marketplace. > > I believe that lawyers call them "de facto standard" and... "we would > really > like this to be standard, so do us a favor, please - standard". It's hard > to > call ODF "de jure standard", really. > -- > Best regards > Mirosław Zalewski > > -- > 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 > -- Steven C. (Steve) Bradley CA Dept of Real Estate, Lic. #00869762 619-316-8781 Direct 619-442-8833 XT 119 Office See my websites: Real Estate and Finance http://realestateandfinancialwisdom.blogspot.com Relationship with God: http://truevoiceofthefather.blogspot.com/ <http://realestateandfinancialwisdom.blogspot.com/> "The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." --Margaret Thatcher "The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." - Samuel Johnson -- 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
