[odf-discuss] strategy for ODF migration (was: A story of TIFF)

[Daniel Carrera]

On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 23:02 +0100, Thomas Zander wrote:
> I just hoped that you'd actually see that you are asking for 
> something that nobody can give

I didn't ask you (or anyone else) for anything.

> and stopping perfectly good innovation because you don't get 
> what you want.

How am I stopping it? I'm not twisting anyone's arms. You call it
innovation. I call it embedding binary objects in ODF documents.

> Which means you two are still missing the real adoption issues ODF faces.

No one has made any argument about the adoption issues. This is a red
herring. You talk about a point that no one has disputed. That migration
to ODF is very difficult due to existing binary data that is unknown to
anyone but MS and can't be mapped to ODF.

We are not disagreeing on the problem. We have a difference of opinion
on the solution. At least, in the most recent emails. I said that if you
convert your binary .doc file to ODF plus dark objects that only MS
Office + daVinci can read, you are still locked into MS Office. I also
point out that if OOo can read .doc files with more accuracy than the
pure ODF component daVinci can produce, then migrating to ODF produced
by daVinci actually increases your lock-in (makes it more difficult to
switch away from MS Office).

Best wishes,
Daniel.
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