[odf-discuss] Fwd: W3C Lead on CDF says OpenDocument Fellowship Position on CDF Makes No Sense

[Ian Lynch]

On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 14:11 +0100, Peter Vandenabeele wrote:
> On Nov 15, 2007 7:58 AM, M. Fioretti <mfioretti at nexaima.net> wrote:
> ...
> > Most others instead, including me, have come to the conclusion
> > that this is really a fake issue:
> >
> > - That when you go to check how things really stand, that kind of
> >   interoperability has never existed or been guaranteed, unless sender
> >   and receiver of a document had identical sw and hw configurations
> 
> I believe that some mature open standards such as tcp/ip or SMTP or
> DNS or ... _do_allow "near perfect" interop between very different
> systems. What an improvement over the days that "e-mail" was plagued
> by a myriad of different proprietary formats.
> 
> I prefer the slight disadvantages of maybe not 100% but only 99%
> technical interoperability over the disadvantage of having to run 100%
> of the same HW/SW solution everywhere. Eventually, even that 1 %
> interop problems will be removed once this is the universal open standard.

In accordance with the theories of disruptive innovation you are right.
Let's go for "good enough" and "better than now" rather than waiting for
perfection and losing momentum. 

If life expectancy increased at the rate of normal chronological time we
would get to the point where we lived forever. Incrementally life
expectancy lengthens but doing nothing waiting for the magic formula to
live forever would result in certain earlier death :-). In the interim
living to a ripe old age is better than dying in middle age. (Well us
middle aged people generally think so!)

Ian
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