On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 17:53 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > > Perhaps you are right. The only distinction between the crap > MS puts out and OO is that OO is open source crap. :-) > > [take that as a very BIG smiley!] ---- considering that I think their target was a drop-in replacement for Microsoft Office, they saw the methods Word used and duplicated it (along with warnings for saving files in foreign document formats). Perhaps they didn't set their goals high enough, I don't know. The thing that strikes me is that this is open source, and participation in the decisions is entirely possible, in many different ways, one of the less effective way being a mailing list. But consider that a user is part of the community that drives the programming decisions. In the topic itself, this is the user community (in the case, the state of Massachusetts) trying to drive the document format - pretty much the same thing. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
