Hi :) I think it's better if they make suggests rather than being dictatorial otherwise people make a determined stand to go another way. Prohibition didn't work in the US and other countries have tried to suppress this or that which has continued anyway despite a government outlawing it or even grown in popularity once it becomes "naughty".
Regards from Tom :) >________________________________ > From: Jay Lozier <jsloz...@gmail.com> >To: users@global.libreoffice.org >Sent: Monday, 19 November 2012, 21:09 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: OpenOffice to be dumped in Freiburg ? > >On 11/19/2012 02:24 PM, VA wrote: >> At the risk of getting political, the last thing I want is my government >> dictating to me what kind of file format to use on my documents. >> >> Virgil >> >The issue is not truly political if the agreed standards are used by all - it >levels the playing field and tends to lower costs for consumers. >> -----Original Message----- From: Jay Lozier >> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2012 2:16 PM >> To: users@global.libreoffice.org >> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: OpenOffice to be dumped in Freiburg ? >> >> On 11/19/2012 01:13 PM, Steven Bradley wrote: >>> I remember this discussion a few years back, when MSO was the defacto >>> standard, and a moving target. One of the most important things for any >>> agency, company government, or individual is backward compatibility. I have >>> many documents that are difficult for me to retrieve, and I wrote them less >>> than 20 years ago, using DOS programs. I can only imagine what things will >>> be like in 30 years for those "old" files. I believe it's of paramount >>> importance, even in this age of rapid development and change, to realize >>> that electronic storage of documents is the wave of the future. They must >>> all be stored in a simple-to-access format that any program can read, not >>> just the latest flavor of the "big boy." I am actually fairly concerned >>> about this, since the concept of proprietary file types has never been >>> addressed by any government agency (it would be easy, for example, for the >>> USGovt to mandate that all files be maintained with the formatting in a >>> separate file. If a large govt (China, the US, EU) mandated that simple >>> change, then all files would cease to be proprietary, except for formatting >>> changes. One might lose the formats, but the file itself would have a >>> permanence that most files do not now have. I might also suggest that the >>> file formatting be subject to some sort of regulation (yes, they CAN do >>> that!), which makes all formatting retrievable, no matter how long it's >>> been since the file was created. >>> Otherwise, we'll all lose a huge amount of information. >>> That's my opinion. YMMV.... >>> Steve Bradley >> Add to file formats, ability to read the old media (floppies, zip-disks, >> etc). Back to your point, it will probably take government action to >> force the use of ODF or similar standard formats over any proprietary >> formats. I am waiting for the MSO version that drops support for doc and >> related formats. >> >> <snip> >> >> > > >-- Jay Lozier >jsloz...@gmail.com > > >-- 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 > > > > -- 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
