Re: [Sheflug] OpenOffice.org becomes PatentOffice.org

[david <david.willington@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > 
> > Hi
> > 
> > For those of us who haven't read it so far.....
> > 
> > " I think Novell needs to change its slogan now. They 
> > describe themselves in the press release like this:
> > 
> >     "Novell, Inc. delivers Software for the Open Enterprise(tm)" 
> > 
> > They've even trademarked the phrase, so we may assume that 
> > back in the day, that was their goal. Back to the drawing 
> > board. May I suggest this as more appropriate now?
> > 
> >     "Novell, Inc. delivers A-Hint-Of-Not-Really-Open-Software 
> > for the Not-Much-Interested-in-Leaving-Microsoft Enterprise"
> > 
> > In my eyes, Novell is forking itself out of the FOSS 
> > community. Here's the press release, to memorialise this day 
> > in FOSS history, and so you can reach your own conclusions. "
> 
> One can only assume that the next development in NovellOffice will be
> something looking pretty much like a toolbar ribbon?
> 
Have I missed something? Isn't Novell creating a filter to allow Open
Office to handle an open format document, and open sourcing the filter?
Isn't the biggest objection to MS office the proprietary format so that
everyone struggles to handle word documents with something other than
word? Is Word (as opposed to .doc) being proprietary cause for
objection? Isn't Novell (and MS, although under duress as far as I can
tell) doing something good by enabling open format(s) in Word? The only
objection that I can see is that MS defined their own open format rather
than go along with something more widely agreed, but is this that much
different to Adobe pdf? I suspect I might be about to trigger a lengthy
explanation about the problems of pdf!

All the best

David 

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