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Tim Bray on Implications of OpenDocument Format
Jure Cuhalev writes "In todays keynote, at the OpenOffice.org conference, Tim Bray focused on what OpenDocument format means for office suits. He compared the impact that OpenDocument will have on regular documents to kick-off of the web with selection of HTML as file format. You can watch the video or listen to audio track. Also check out the media page for more conference coverage."
However, it would probably make for a nice tie in Times Roman 14.
HBI's Law: Frequency of calling others Nazis is directly correlated with the likelihood of the accuser being Communist.
what OpenDocument format means for office suits
What has a document format got to do with the company dress code? Or was that a veiled insult to the management?
My Karma: ran over your Dogma
StrawberryFrog
What the hell? I cannot view this in Windows Media Player? WHAT'S HAPPENING? WHAT'S THIS OGG? IS IT A VIRUS?
Full Tilt
If you put it in the recycle bin it can be retrieved/reused - not what you want!
43 - For those who require slightly more than the answer to life, the universe and everything.
You can watch the video or listen to audio track. Also check out the media page for more conference coverage or I could just NOT RTFA and spurt opinions. I prefer the true ./ way.
Disclosure: I'm stupid
*sigh* I was going to post a fake transcript, full of salacious observations about Taco's gaping anus, but I don't want to troll the deaf.
But if the parent is trolling, then I say: here's to trolls that raise awareness about accessibility and technology!
In the suite,
Since you so 1337
Just one way
To Redmond defeat:
Burma Shave
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
People from non-US don't have disabilities, hence the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Don't feel bad just because you're over there. Europeans are Americans too, ya know.
After all, I am strangely colored.
Normal people doesn't know/doesn't care about speelling or grammer too/either, but normal people cares about money and not giving it over to the Borg guys. So places that gots lots of intelligint people that school at Harvid and Emitee makes the government stick the Micosoft EULA right up the Borg's shitshoot just like with the english teabaggers.
MS is like the Titanic. They are unsinkable I tell you, unsinkable. They need not correct course or reduce speed to avoid obstacles. Their sheer weight will carry them through.
Full steam ahead!
And after more than an hour, there is no transcript. That said, any deaf readers shouldn't feel too left out, though: reading (or listing to) the article is by no means a prerequisite for discussion at slashdot.
The Cycle of the Standards
while (OSS != £) {
they start out great -> developers stick to them -> designers stick to them -> the public are happy, things are working -> our big fluffy friend Microsoft comes along and decides that everybody else has got it wrong to date, and its up to them, the unappreciated e-heros of redmond to step in and relese some inferior software -> read through all the GPL code -> claim they're sticking to the standard right up until release -> do no such thing -> within two weeks release security updates for IE6/7 and XP/Vista making the original standard impossible to use -> people buy microsoft products -> microsoft corner the market share for that particular product -> service industry depression, too much money going toward software licensing -> gov depts lose money, again licensing -> voters begin to feel the sting of less publically invested money -> lose faith in gov -> bush goes to war -> OSS community send out the message "there is another way" -> decides to write up a standard so them compatability is assured
}
You feel sleepy. Close your eyes. The opinions stated above are yours. You cannot imagine why you ever felt otherwise.