From koffice-devel  Thu Mar 13 17:40:34 2008
From: Sebastian Sauer <mail () dipe ! org>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:40:34 +0000
To: koffice-devel
Subject: Re: MS filters
Message-Id: <200803131840.34843.mail () dipe ! org>
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On Thursday 13 March 2008, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> Sebastian Sauer wrote:
> > On Thursday 13 March 2008, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> >> (And MSOOXML is rumored to be a patent minefield. I hope the people
> >> thinking about implementing it are keeping this in mind...)
> >
> > To avoid anything that may covered by a software-patent would result in
> > stopping to develop software in general.
>
> True. Unfortunately :-(.
>
> > Take it serious, fight against it
> > but don't accept it and don't give up.
>
> I /think/ that's a sentiment I agree with, but I'm not sure what "it"
> you are referring to.

it == whatever patents are on whatever. Well we just don't know and to just 
guess and assume isn't enough for me. With that logic I would never have 
contributed to KMLDonkey (p2p, I suggest to read the ~2003 discussions if KDE 
should take the danger to include a potential "illegal" filesharing-app into 
extragear - that was before apollon, ktorrent, etc.), would never participate 
at demonstrations cause it may illegal to do so in near future, would never 
drive a car cause it may crash, etc.

let's be pragmatic here and don't give up cause it may the case that... :)

> Please note that on this topic I wasn't (not at the moment, anyway)
> advocating "we shouldn't implement this"*, just asking that people
> wouldn't "eat the Microsoft Fruit" without considering the dangers.

I am looking at it from a plain technical view and as such that format just 
sucks ages and that's really the biggest danger I see here. Beside that 1) 
all work done now will be rendered invalid once Office2009 is out and 2) that
the sell-out of the ISO also affects the reputation of OpenDocument and 
everything else they signed off - big grrrrr.
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