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Let's gather support for the Open Document format.

http://opendocumentfellowship.org/petition/


Bling Bling

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Free Open Source software - it's not just about better code, as important as
that is. It's about better values, higher ethics.

On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 15:29:21 +1300, Bling Bling <> wrote:

>Let's gather support for the Open Document format.
>
>http://opendocumentfellowship.org/petition/
>
>
>Bling Bling



Does that include PDF..?

On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 18:15:03 +1300, XP wrote:

> On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 15:29:21 +1300, Bling Bling <> wrote:
>
>>Let's gather support for the Open Document format.
>>
>>http://opendocumentfellowship.org/petition/
>
> Does that include PDF..?

Um...

That's the Open Document file format - the same one as approved by one of
the States of the USA - not the Portable Document format.

But given that the PDF specification has already been fully published and
promulgated, PDF has already received approval as a sufficiently-open file
format.


Bling Bling

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Pamela Jones: "Linux will continue to grow, and open formats and standards
will continue to be adopted in part because we don't trust Microsoft."

So we are writing software by petition now?

How is MS supposed to verify that the petitioners are MS Office users? Where
does the petitioner put the PID and how does MS verify the PID? How would MS
know if the majority of the petitioners ever had MS Office, are linux users,
or are fabricated?

This sounds like such a lame way to raise what should be saleable virtues
that should be self evident.

This is going to backfire on the dimwit that thought the idea up. Its a joke
right?

If the virtues of the format are not [reasonably] self evident then this
sounds like a perverted way to change other peoples ways.

What are you going to do next? Stand on a street corner with a petition to
make use of linux compulsory? Outlaw all patents? Remove all privacy? Remove
all rights to earn a living from original thought unless it gets GPL'd
first?



"Bling Bling" <> wrote in message
news ...
> Let's gather support for the Open Document format.
>
> http://opendocumentfellowship.org/petition/
>
>
> Bling Bling
>
> --
> Free Open Source software - it's not just about better code, as important
> as
> that is. It's about better values, higher ethics.
>

Bling Bling wrote:

> Let's gather support for the Open Document format.
>
> http://opendocumentfellowship.org/petition/
>
>
> Bling Bling

Done.

Thanks!

Closed source - owned - data forms for public use make as much sense as
someone *owning* the idea of using pencil and paper to write things down.

Mercury wrote:

> So we are writing software by petition now?

No. Not even close.

We are asking that an open and public file format used to store data for
public use and public access - 'without let or hindrance" be ALSO
supported.

bull.
the site is soliciting unverified and unverifiable 'petitioners' to cause a
software has to do what you choose. It is not responding to the "Challange"
at all.

"steve" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Mercury wrote:
>
>> So we are writing software by petition now?
>
> No. Not even close.
>
> We are asking that an open and public file format used to store data for
> public use and public access - 'without let or hindrance" be ALSO
> supported.
>
>

s/b house not has.

"Mercury" <> wrote in message
news:djaadv$aki$...
> bull.
> the site is soliciting unverified and unverifiable 'petitioners' to cause
> a software has to do what you choose. It is not responding to the
> "Challange" at all.
>
> "steve" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> Mercury wrote:
>>
>>> So we are writing software by petition now?
>>
>> No. Not even close.
>>
>> We are asking that an open and public file format used to store data for
>> public use and public access - 'without let or hindrance" be ALSO
>> supported.
>>
>>
>
>

On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 22:07:51 +1300, Mercury wrote:

> s/b house not has.

Dude you're not making sense.


Bling Bling

--
Pamela Jones: "Linux will continue to grow, and open formats and standards
will continue to be adopted in part because we don't trust Microsoft."

Mercury wrote:
> bull.
> the site is soliciting unverified and unverifiable 'petitioners' to cause a
> software has to do what you choose. It is not responding to the "Challange"
> at all.
>
> "steve" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>
>>Mercury wrote:
>>
>>
>>>So we are writing software by petition now?
>>
>>No. Not even close.
>>
>>We are asking that an open and public file format used to store data for
>>public use and public access - 'without let or hindrance" be ALSO
>>supported.
>>
>>
>
>
>

Its would be better for their competitors if they don't include support
for the OASIS document format.
Better for their users if they do.
There have been some pretty big embarrassments caused by .doc documents
being released with previous drafts and revisions visible.