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From: Lars Nooden on 9 Feb 2010 05:32 Drew Jensen wrote: > just passing this along - I'd say from everything I'm reading that this > is all still way high up in the air...but here is the scuttle-but of the > day > > http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/02/few-days-ago-we-shared-word-that.html Here is what it is about It is about going backwards: "application compatible with most common Microsoft formats ..." AbiWord does not support OpenDocument Format: http://www.abisource.com/wiki/OpenDocument_support Gnumeric has partial support, but probably not enough to be useful or interoperable with other applications: http://projects.gnome.org/gnumeric/announcements/1.8/gnumeric-1.8.shtml The nearly non-existent support for the OpenDocument Format in both AbiWord and Gnumeric has been intentional. Some of that is due to waste of resources on the still undefined, dead end MOOX. Prior to that MOOX trip, both were rather good applications. In other packages for the UNR, there are similar agendas manifesting. The use of Tomboy in place of Knotes, Gettingthingsgnome, Basket, Gnote or Zim is more of the same. Some of the agendas appear to be about a race to the bottom or at least cutting off at the knees a good distro. Other agendas appear to be nothing more than pushing out non-Microsoft formats and ways whenever and wherever possible. So, in hindsight how did Mark lose control of Ubuntu, can it be fixed, could better judgment from Jono in choosing volunteers have helped? Regards, /Lars --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscribe(a)openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-help(a)openoffice.org |