Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on September 17, 2002 07:35 AM
I'm pretty sure that is NOT what the author meant. I think he is making the very important point that If we are going to push open solutions, We should be encouraging the various office projects(Koffice, Gnumerics/Abiword, Openoffice) to adopt a common, Open document file format. If they all used a common file format, then Us users could use the tool and environment that we are comfortable with, rather than be forced to adopt the tool to read the file.
I saw someone else make a commment last week about how a browser plug-in that would be a quick viewer for a common file format, would allow people to start moving away from the proprietary MS formats. I think this would be a great boon for everyone. The sooner that people and companies stop creating their data on proprietary formats. The better.
Note that a common XML based document format could become the Wedge that starts pushing people away from Proprietary tools. Also note that it would obviate the need for PDF files.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on September 17, 2002 07:35 AMI think he is making the very important point that
If we are going to push open solutions, We should
be encouraging the various office projects(Koffice,
Gnumerics/Abiword, Openoffice) to adopt a common,
Open document file format. If they all used a common file format, then Us users could use the tool and environment that we are comfortable with, rather than be forced to adopt the tool to read the file.
I saw someone else make a commment last week about how a browser plug-in that would be a quick viewer for a common file format, would allow people to start moving away from the proprietary MS formats. I think this would be a great boon for everyone. The sooner that people and companies stop creating their data on proprietary formats. The better.
Note that a common XML based document format could become the Wedge that starts pushing people away from Proprietary tools. Also note that it would obviate the need for PDF files.
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