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Weblog:   Opening the potential of OpenOffice.org
Subject:   What's the hurry?
Date:   2005-09-18 09:12:17
From:   IanRLynch
The hurry is the same reson its desirable to do at all. There are always going to be disagreements about degrees of freedom. What matters is improvement. Is it better tomorrow than to-day? And by how much? Hence fast progress is inherently better than slow progress. ODF is the real jewel in the crown because an agreed open standard for documents means a whole range of document manipulation software is possible. OOo is currently the strongest vehicle for ODF and its needed for ODF to flourish. With ODF established, if you don't think OOo is free enough you can use KDE or whatever you like without having to worry about people saying they can't read your files. So OOo is strategically important for anyone who wants to see a Linux desktop with a significant enough presence to start providing real choice. I am a committee member of the UK AFFS so I believe in free software. I fi I have to put up with some Java for a while to get more people using free software globally, so be it.