[ILUG] on the MS ISO standard thing (fwd)

[Colm MacCarthaigh]

On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 07:37:57PM +0000, Conor Daly wrote:
> > So, it is just a marketting war? Like I said; "Mneh". 
> 
> Not strictly so.  It's part of the war on free software along with swpats
> and DRM and treacherous computing...

Using Linux doesn't (and shouldn't) imply that one takes a side in this
"war". It's just well, using, Linux.

> > Btw, if you think implementing an ISO will make OO.O better than MS
> > Office, hah! I'm an oo.o user (well I use NeoOffice), and it's miles off
> > :-)
> > 
> > Don't get me wrong, I'm in favour of OpenOffice XML being the only
> > ISO standard, but for completely different reasons - more to do with
> > getting governments into the habit of using properly standardised
> > and open formats for public information - but I think it's really
> 
> Agreed.  The real reason for being able to say OO.O is better is to
> encourage use of the open standards.  If MS have a proprietary standard
> mandated, they can, once again, dominate public info and government
> policies.

Well, OO.O is a piece of software, and it's much worse than MS Office in
my opinion. But that doesn't affect the strong wisdom of using only open
and standardised formats.

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Colm MacCárthaigh                        Public Key: colm+pgp at stdlib.net