On Friday 14 September 2007 20:12, Mohan Nayaka wrote:
On 9/14/07, jtd jtd@mtnl.net.in wrote:
On Friday 14 September 2007 09:51, Janani Gopalakrishnan wrote:
Hi,
I would like to seek your views on something...
Microsoft is criticised much by the FOSS community -- one or the other aspect of it. Their software, their ways of doing business, their attitude, whatever. My belief is that whenever somebody criticises they will also have a potential solution in mind -- and I felt, why is it that the solution aspect is barely discussed wrt the Microsoft issue :-)
Wrong. It has been discussed ad nauseum. Grep the list archives. One of the issues that came up out of discussions in the FOSS community is open standards. The result is the ODF specs for documents.
I feel odf docs in a sharepoint site will do no one much good.
Even with open protocols?. Two of the remedial measures opening of all protocols current and future and no patents would ensure interoperability. Ofcourse if someone buys into a sharepoint hosted service he is going to have his data held to ransom. If M$ can provide a better service WITH these remedies so be it. Let customers flock to them.