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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."
I submitted a story yesterday commenting on James Prendergast's article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,170724,00.html but it got rejected.
This clown's organization lists Microsoft as a founding member and he makes so many false claims it's not even laughable.
The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either. - Benjamin Franklin
*munch*
VLC should be able to play it (and just about anything else you might throw at it).
Americans with Disabilities Act???
Hello!?!??! This is an European event, an European server! But nonetheless, a transcript would be nice.
Yes, you can read them fine. The problem appears when you open a .doc in one of the OSS apps, edit and save it, and then try to work on it in MS Office. Shudder. Hopefully the new format will alleviate this sort of thing a bit.
sudo ergo sum
OpenOffice isn't in beta anymore, rc1 is out... so the beta "canard" that MS have been trying to fly is an ex-canard... days to do are getting few for the final full release.
Donald 'Duck' Dunn: We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline.
It was mentioned, but not directly- it was in a slide:
"They estimate that to upgrade to Office 12, which MSFT is offering as the 'open format' would cost $50M (including software licenses, upgrading operating systems as needed, newer hardware in some cases, and training). Estimate of cost to install Open Office is $5M (comparable components). He noted that these are VERY CRUDE estimates"
- Notes on remarks by Eric Kriss, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, September 2005
So the Open Office roll out would cost an estimated $100 per machine.
Hope that helps!
http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/09 /09/192250&from=rss
"[We'll be] really getting inside your head and making it an unpleasant place to be" -- Trent Reznor
MS is using open to mean "free as in beer" (for the time being)
OO.o is using open to mean "free as in speech"
If you don't risk failure you don't risk success.
On the issue of patents, Sun also did a clear announcement today on the issue of patents that Sun might/does have that could related to the standard (since it's based on work by OOo via Sun, naturally they do have patents): See this blog entry by Simon Phipps (Sun's Open Source Ombudsman) for more info. It's a blanket promise, irrevocable, global, not time-limited, reciprocal...
Erm, the point I was making was this:
Geek: D00d, check out this new open office suit.
CEO: You mean office suite not office suit, you illiterate geek. It's spelled differently, pronounced differently and means something else. You were raised by MTV and your mother smells of wee.
My Karma: ran over your Dogma
StrawberryFrog
There are better reasons to criticize Fox News, I think.
So therefore Office 12 XML should not happen, then? 'cos 80% are using .doc.