RE: [ros-dev] Microsoft Office files in the trunk

[Murphy, Ged (Bolton)]

Mike Swanson wrote:

>   In the branch of press-media, there are two documents
> currently. An MS
>  Word and MS PowerPoint document.
>  
>  I'm calling for SVN committers for _no more_ MS Office documents. They
>  are a proprietary format, of which not all the features are currently
>  known. I recommend instead the use of OASIS OpenDocument. Not only
>  does it save much space, but it also does not contain any secrets in
>  which need to be reverse engineered to discover.
>   
[...]
>   
>  Please, for the good of the project, use the free OpenDocument format.
>  If not for the reason of being open or free, but simply for the fact
>  that it ensures that everybody will be able to view such documents (no
>  need to buy any pricey office suites here!). 
I disagree with this. I don't know how to use oo.o or variants, and I don't
intend on learning something I have no interest in. 
I'm currently putting together a presentation for the speeches I have coming
up on ReactOS. If a rule was put in place where we could only commit
OpenDocument files, I would simply not put it into the repository and would
instead share it with anyone who wanted it via email.

This isn't because I'm being awkward, it's because I have no time or
interest to learn a new office suite .... and I certainly don't want to
install oo.o on my machine.

I suppose it's this attitude which keeps MS Office up as a monopoly, which
now make me realise why they don't want to support OpenDocument.


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