materials from last meeting - open format
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Claus-Peter Wiedemann
Hi Jeremiah,
Very well said. I’d love to work with open formats, too. But experience tells me that it is just not practical unless all of my peers would also switch. Interoperability is bad, really bad. It only works without glitches if you have plain text. Otherwise it is a nightmare and I just don’t have the time to tweak formatting all the time. BTW, for plain text, I’d prefer to use “vi” J
Just my (reality inspired) 2 cts.
Best regards Claus-Peter
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Im Auftrag von Jeremiah Foster
Many thanks Jilayne!
I appreciate the difficulty of changing document formats in the middle of negotiations and I wouldn't ask anyone to go through that. But I'm not going to give up here that easily. :-)
Firstly, at least in the cozy confines of our Linux Foundation lists, we should likely walk the walk and not just talk the talk. I think adding open document formats to our emails for those who live a completely free software lifestyle gives us a touch of credibility with the unwashed software developer masses. I say that in the most loving way possible as I count myself amongst them.
Secondly, there is a very strong connection between FOSS and privacy. Many FOSS developers are passionate security activists. As legal folks, I'm a wee bit surprised that you'd trust your data to an insecure platform. Especially knowing what we all know, e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG
Now I'm sure that's not the response anyone wants to hear, but the reality is that we all operate in. Fortunately, there is a more secure alternative.
Cheers,
Jeremiah
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Jeremiah Foster <jeremiah.foster@...>
Many thanks Jilayne! I appreciate the difficulty of changing document formats in the middle of negotiations and I wouldn't ask anyone to go through that. But I'm not going to give up here that easily. :-) Firstly, at least in the cozy confines of our Linux Foundation lists, we should likely walk the walk and not just talk the talk. I think adding open document formats to our emails for those who live a completely free software lifestyle gives us a touch of credibility with the unwashed software developer masses. I say that in the most loving way possible as I count myself amongst them. Secondly, there is a very strong connection between FOSS and privacy. Many FOSS developers are passionate security activists. As legal folks, I'm a wee bit surprised that you'd trust your data to an insecure platform. Especially knowing what we all know, e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG Now I'm sure that's not the response anyone wants to hear, but the reality is that we all operate in. Fortunately, there is a more secure alternative. Cheers, Jeremiah On Tuesday, November 4, 2014, J Lovejoy <opensource@...> wrote:
Hi All,
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J Lovejoy
Hi All,
I just uploaded an .odp and .odt version of Ibrahim’s slide deck and document from last call. I checked the view and all looked the same in both formats as the originals that Ibrahim sent. As to Jeremiah’s question re: why MS Office is so prevalent (in this population) - my view as to that is that it is sometimes not really a choice. If you are a lawyer negotiating contracts, it’s possible that the lawyer on the other side has never heard of Libre or Open Office and the midst of a negotiation is not really the time to try and teach someone about MS alternatives or free software options. :) Probably not the answer you wanted to hear, but the reality that many of us (legal folks) operate in. cheers, Jilayne |
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