Am 24. Dec, 2004 schwätzte Trent Shipley so:

> Indeed!  But remember what is REALLY critical about *.doc is not really the
> fact that it is standard, but that it is ubiquitous.  Also a lot of "legacy"
> systems are dependent on it.
>
> Microsoft should be worried, it's whole Office Suite is horizontal software,
> ideal for coversion to free infrastructure (free as in "freeway").  There are
> a couple of problems despite the advantage of OO.o's incomparable advantage
> in initial cost of ownership.  First, Word and the rest of MS Office are
> still noticeably better engineered, more robust, and feature rich than OO.o
> analogs.  Second, if we consider licensing MS Office the primary cost of MS
> Office, gains in ICO are more than offset with losses from secondary costs
> from confused clerical staff struggling with conversion and broken software
> that expects to work with MS Office COM interfaces.  Even in the rosiest
> scenario, it will take years to get MS Word down to 50% market share against
> a competitor with a price-point of $0.

Yes, it will likely take years for OO.o to capture a significant
percentage of the market. It is, however, growing and we're seeing some
success.

> Free:
>
> Free, as in beer.  Gratis.
> Free, as in freedom.  Libere.
> Free, as in freeway.  Free infrastructure, contrast with toll road.

Not sure what you're implying here. Do you mean "free to use" formats? Or
is that part of what you're saying?

> Economically, the most important of these is "Free as in freeway".

ciao,

der.hans
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