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Tim Bray on Implications of OpenDocument Format

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the open-to-ideas dept.

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."

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  1. Audio only. Whoopee, tech! Pity I'm deaf. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I can't hear audio, and online video is never high enough quality to lip-read from. And I'm not going to waste half an hour trying to connect and download the video when I can be 99% sure they won't have bothered to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act and provide subtitles.

    So, like, any chance of a transcript?

  2. Re:Propaganda by SpooForBrains · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Agreed, but don't you think we ought to try and break that trend? It wasn't always this way, it doesn't have to stay this way. This way is stupid. Word Documents are binary, about ten times larger than they need to be, proprietary, and they don't hold formatting information properly.

    So, instead of bitching about how OpenDocument isn't going to amount to anything, and doing your part to create a self-fulfilling prophecy, why not join the rest of us that are trying to make sure it does, and tell your colleagues, and the people you share documents with, about its benefits?

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  3. Re:Microsoft techie appearing on the OOo con by coofercat · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...standard Microsoft ideas, saying the speaker (!!) seems Anti-American, anti-corporate,

    ...IS open for everyone, citing some EU decision on that.

    Anyone spot the irony there? I know Americans aren't blessed with irony-spotting skills, but the EU being used to bolster an argument about anti-Americanism really takes the biscuit.

    I say, "Roll on Gallileo!" ;-)

  4. Re:Suits? by morgajel · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Microsoft products can't read file formats they refuse to implement" is what you meant, I think.

    it sounds like microsoft is the one screwing you, not OSS.

    their reasons are obvious, they don't want to compete, and refuse to participate in anything that would make them do so. they're pulling the equiv. of covering their ears and closing their eyes and screaming "na na na na na I don't hear you you don't exist."

    it pisses me off that people take the viewpoint that this is OSS's fault that MS refuses to support their customers.

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