Algoz
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Maybe we can consider whats behind all this ballot screen stuff...
Certain parts of the EU, especially the French authorities have moved to Open Office as their office suite. This is not a recent development, see...
http://news.cnet.com/French-taxman-opts-for-OpenOffice/2110-7344_3-5942180.html
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Major_OpenOffice.org_Deployments
You'll see that North America deployments are significantly lower.
Now, everyone in Europe knows that the political power is the French-German axis. Its not too much of a stretch to see why the French/EU would want to force the ODF to have equal billing in any office suite, whether it be open or proprietary.
The thing is, Open Office is being starved of investment, with some reporting the central development team is down to just 6 (I don't want to get into the merits or otherwise of community based support), which is quite a risk when running government departments.
So, my opinion, M$-Office should support fully the odf format, and Open Office should support fully the M$-Office formats (docx, xlsx etc). This gives consumer choice.
But if either organisation choose not to support the other's format, thats their decision.
Finally, IMHO, the EU should have no right to force an entrepreneurial organisation to compromise its product (so long as its legal). Same applies to ballot screen for browser preference,
Certain parts of the EU, especially the French authorities have moved to Open Office as their office suite. This is not a recent development, see...
http://news.cnet.com/French-taxman-opts-for-OpenOffice/2110-7344_3-5942180.html
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Major_OpenOffice.org_Deployments
You'll see that North America deployments are significantly lower.
Now, everyone in Europe knows that the political power is the French-German axis. Its not too much of a stretch to see why the French/EU would want to force the ODF to have equal billing in any office suite, whether it be open or proprietary.
The thing is, Open Office is being starved of investment, with some reporting the central development team is down to just 6 (I don't want to get into the merits or otherwise of community based support), which is quite a risk when running government departments.
So, my opinion, M$-Office should support fully the odf format, and Open Office should support fully the M$-Office formats (docx, xlsx etc). This gives consumer choice.
But if either organisation choose not to support the other's format, thats their decision.
Finally, IMHO, the EU should have no right to force an entrepreneurial organisation to compromise its product (so long as its legal). Same applies to ballot screen for browser preference,