[odf-discuss] Microsoft and Novell cooperate on document formats

[M. Fioretti]

On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 07:36:14 AM +0000, Alex Hudson
(alex at stratagia.co.uk) wrote:

> Lars D. Noodén wrote:
> > So it's likely that the intented purpose of the deal is something that
> > can be accomplished or dismissed in less than that amount of time. 
> > Such as showing a standards body that work "has begun" in supporting
> > MOOX on more than one platform.  If MOOX is then approved, then that
> > work can be dropped like a rock because of "lack of market demand".
> 
> Michael Meeks' blog is pretty clear on this:
> 
>     http://www.gnome.org/~michael/activity.html#2006-11-02
> 

That blog says, among other things:

> To re-emphasise this, the value in OpenOffice.org is not what file
> format it supports (eg. we want to add good Lotus Word Pro support)
> but that it is truly Free software, that gives people critical
> Freedoms.

This is "Thing # 2" at http://digifreedom.net/node/56/

> An open format is anyhow implicit in the native file format of any
> openly developed Free software project.

and this is, more or less, "Thing #1" at the same URL.

M. Meeks is a great guy, but this time he really surprised me :-(

Ciao,
	Marco

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Software freedom for almost every person or corporation is [just] the
possibility to switch software at will, without losing time, data and
configuration settings... There is no objective or metaphysical need
of Free as in Freedom source code to make this happen

>From http://digifreedom.net/node/57