Of course there are some plans along these lines already - just look at the DTD - 200K! There are also a lot of good links on this page (scroll down) ĭamn people lets be honest here while MS may not have been technically inovated but they have executed much better than the open source communicty and in the end have a better product. Then if Kword wants to read MS Word it just uses the OpenOffice filters. Maybe we should just use OpenOffice as the standard format(s), and turn the OpenOffice filters into a library. It would make more sense in the longer term to have a common intermediate format.
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And then each group has its own native format as well, so for full interoperability, you've got a lot of filters. MS Office, RTF, Lotus 123, WordPerfect etc. The point is, you've got 4 main groups (Star/OpenOffice, Hancom, KDE, GNOME) all developing filters for e.g. In the short term it always feels good to keep making your current filters just a little bit better, but I think if you take like a three-year view, then I think StarOffice and us and KOffice and GNOME Office, if we all worked on the same thing, then we'd all be much better off in a couple years. I think we have to build this middle layer, this XML layer, and everybody exports to that and imports from that. In terms of what it would save them to be able to walk away from the MS-Tax, I'm guessing that even $10M would be small change for a fortune-500 company - but a hefty chunk of money to an OS development effort. I figure that - if people are willing to take it on, there are probably Fortune-500 companies that would be willing to put a couple of million dollars into funding the core group to develop some of this functionality. I think that the next stage of the Linux World-Domination project would be to take a survey of what necessary functionality is missing from the Linux desk-top to allow a full-company switchover.
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In terms of beauty and ease of use, KDE/Gnome is right up there with Windows (in fact, I remember thinking that Win2K looked like a gnome knock-off). This actually makes a lot of sense to me. The big show-stopper was apparently things like Calendering software. I've actually heard similar comments from someone who told me that RedHat had gotten queries from VP and CEO levels of Fortune 500 companies about switching the entire company from Windows to Linux. For him, this was pretty much the market-killer. The argument of the DTO was that we needed access to the Microsoft Calendering software. One company I worked for tried to force all of the geeks to switch over to Windows. It's rather that they still don't have all of the pieces needed to make the switch. I'm not so sure that people are happy with Windows.
It works pretty well, and the cost savings that result from Linux on the desktop for most companies do not warrant the trauma of having to worry about whether your Microsoft Office document is going to open properly. because the companies are pretty happy with Windows. Because of that, in my opinion, it's hard to make money in the U.S.
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