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

[Steven Edwards]

Hi Mike,

--- Mike Swanson <mikeonthecomputer(a)gmail.com> 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. 
If the developers vote for it I have no problem abiding by that. That being said I am not
going to
call for a vote on it right now. I am more productive in Microsoft Office than I am in
OpenOffice
when it comes to presentations and I don't really want to be strong armed in to any
format (open
or closed). I chose Powerpoint because I KNOW every single Windows+Office system in the
world can
view my presentation. I am happy to make duplicates of my stuff in OpenDocument but I
don't want
to be forced in to it.

Thanks
Steven



		
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