Comment 411 for bug 1

On 7/23/07, Amir E. Aharoni <email address hidden> wrote:
> On 23/07/07, DanTrevino <email address hidden> wrote:
> > On 7/23/07, Amir E. Aharoni <email address hidden> wrote:
> > > Writing documents and university papers can't get much better than
> > > MS-Office, OpenOffice, TeX and DocBook. Each of them caters rather
> > > well to their respective markets (except some interoperability issues,
> > > which are really rather minor if you put the bizness bullshit aside.)
> >
> > That little interoperability thing IS important. Open standards are
> > critical to a true free exchange of ideas.
>
> Of course it is - but there is no real engineering problem; it's
> *business bullshit*.
>
> And of course the public perception of "openness" - the public doesn't
> care how open the specs are, they just want their documents to work,
> NOW and unfortunately Microsoft uses it very well.
>
> But i was trying to talk about a much larger scale...
>

Fair enough, I think we agree. I misunderstood your "interoperability
issues, which are really rather minor..." statement. It sounds to me
like you're saying interoperability is not an issue.