First of all know all the facts before arguing. You basis of argument is that India is forcing people to live below standards so as to cut costs and sell below margin. This is totally FALSE and WRONG.
The American cost of living (in $) is NOT comparable to the Indian cost of living (in Rupees).
Indians working in call centres are earning pretty well, much more than what they would have earned in the outsourcing industry was not there. So in fact outsourcing is making their standard of living better.
Internet has made it fairly simple for anyone to do any work from any part of the world. Unfortunately there are people who are willing to do your job for lesser than your pay but actually which is more than their current pay. They are not to be blamed for the cost of $ vs cost of Rs.
Thats a typical American way of looking at things. For you Americans, whatever the world does or talks is concerned with USA. You guys think too much of yourselves.
OpenOffice has been supporting Microsoft's "closed" formats like doc and xls over the years. And nobody had any problem about it! And now Novell writes code for OpenOffice to support OpenXML format and everyone starts shouting "traitor" at the top of their voice!!
If that be the case, why didn't you make sure that OpenOffice supported only sxi initially and only odt now? Why do you want OpenOffice to work with doc and xls formats?
The arguments end here.
Supporting OpenXML in OpenOffice will actually help OpenOffice grow. Microsoft may market Office 2007 to customer saying that all other document formats have bee outdated and OpenXML is the only 'good' format for the future. There might be some people who believe that story. So how does it hurt to have an OpenOffice version that already supports OpenXML? Surely some people might opt for this rather than upgrading to Office 2007.
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First of all know all the facts before arguing. You basis of argument is that India is forcing people to live below standards so as to cut costs and sell below margin. This is totally FALSE and WRONG.
The American cost of living (in $) is NOT comparable to the Indian cost of living (in Rupees).
Indians working in call centres are earning pretty well, much more than what they would have earned in the outsourcing industry was not there. So in fact outsourcing is making their standard of living better.
Internet has made it fairly simple for anyone to do any work from any part of the world. Unfortunately there are people who are willing to do your job for lesser than your pay but actually which is more than their current pay. They are not to be blamed for the cost of $ vs cost of Rs.
Thats a typical American way of looking at things. For you Americans, whatever the world does or talks is concerned with USA. You guys think too much of yourselves.
And how does that amount to "forking" OpenOffice?
OpenOffice has been supporting Microsoft's "closed" formats like doc and xls over the years. And nobody had any problem about it! And now Novell writes code for OpenOffice to support OpenXML format and everyone starts shouting "traitor" at the top of their voice!!
If that be the case, why didn't you make sure that OpenOffice supported only sxi initially and only odt now? Why do you want OpenOffice to work with doc and xls formats?
The arguments end here.
Supporting OpenXML in OpenOffice will actually help OpenOffice grow. Microsoft may market Office 2007 to customer saying that all other document formats have bee outdated and OpenXML is the only 'good' format for the future. There might be some people who believe that story. So how does it hurt to have an OpenOffice version that already supports OpenXML? Surely some people might opt for this rather than upgrading to Office 2007.
Now that for me makes perfect sense.