[odf-discuss] Apple petition

[Lars Noodén]

Yoon Kit Yong wrote:
> Anyway we can "monetize" our 40,000 petition signers?
> Send out an invitation email to them to join "noooxml-petitions"
> mailling list which we can write to to sign other ODF friendly petitions.

Probably best to work through Digg, Slashdot and others.  Maybe the ODF
Alliance can be useful.

The petition can be made more effective if we could find out what the
status is within Apple and what the apparent obstacles are.  I can't say
that I myself see any strong hold MS would have over Apple using MSO, so
there must be some other hold or influence.

> e.g. iWorks to support ODF. MSOffice to support ODF. After all,
> Jason Matusow says that he needs "tens-of-thousands" customers
> to consider it "strong feedback"

We did a rather successul petition to MS earlier:
 http://www.opendocumentfellowship.com/petition

However, in general MS is rather a waste of time, since no outside
factors are going to be able to influence their agenda regardless.  Best
to find a way to outmaneuver them and prevent their standard shenanigans.

Regards,
-Lars

PS. YK: congrats