[odf-discuss] Re: [Noooxml] Fwd: [odfsig] MAMPU Migrates to OpenOffice.org

[Alberto Barrionuevo]

Hi Ditesh,

El Wednesday 19 March 2008 18:19:07 Ditesh Kumar escribió:
> On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 12:53 +0100, Alberto Barrionuevo wrote:
> >     take care to use the original build of OpenOffice.org. The Novell
> > build fails a lot (I can give details). But take care that most of the
> > Linux distributions use the Novell build (still).
>
> you're assuming mampu's using linux. they are still on windows, so they
> would be using the OOo windows build release.

Well, my other advice (the fonts one) was preciselly thinking in a future 
mixed environment with Windows and Linux. Once you have opened the door to 
OOo, Firefox, Thunderbird and so, you can expect that some desktops will be 
able to work in Linux without major problems.

And for that point you need to take of fonts, so, always is better to care 
from the beginning to prevent future problems.

> the open source 
> competency center (a mampu sub-project) uses mostly ubuntu. most of us
> here agree that novell stuff is icky.

ACK.
>
> they have a long way to go and you can expect microsoft to lobby
> extremely hard to change the policy (microsoft malaysia is fairly
> paranoid and goes overboard in their responses to open standards and
> open source initiatives).
>
> we will keep microsoft at bay and support mampu's initiative as much as
> we can to keep it going.

This is everywhere. But their pressure some times is like a boomerang against 
themselves, so it is nice to force them to enter in "presure mode".

Btw, [pls. answer me in private not to disturb the list] have you any 
Malaysian interoperability framework or similar? I need to collect and study 
as many as possible, but I'm having problems mainly with Asian languajes.

Saludos,
-- 
Alberto Barrionuevo
President FFII
www.ffii.org