Re: When will Open Document format be supported?

On Sun, 16 Oct 2005, Dom Lachowicz wrote:

> Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 09:24:50 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Dom Lachowicz <domlachowicz@yahoo.com>
> To: abiword-user@abisource.com
> Subject: Re: When will Open Document format be supported?
>
>
> > Yes, but we can laugh at our contacts who can't read
> > the OpenDocument
> > documents we send them, and through them we get to
> > ridicule their word
> > processor (M$ Word).
> >
> > We can tell them that the UN has sponsored this
> > document format, and
> > then tell them to upgrade their legacy word
> > processor to something modern.
> >
> > That alone I think is a reason worth working many
> > hours for.
>
> Don't do something just to make other people feel
> small. It will only make you look bad and won't win
> you any converts. You'll catch more flies with honey
> than with vinegar...

Satire can convey a very simple idea very powerfully as shown by the
uncyclopedia entry for Gnome
http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Gnome

 "Tourette's Syndrome is a bonus, especially for those replying to goddamn
  n00b questions on the user's mailing list"

The traditional heavy handed responses some developers still foolishly
believe is acceptable really does make them look like they are suffering
from some form of Tourettes or Autism (with apologies to anyone genuinely
struggling from either of those conditions). Unfortunately many people
fail to understand satire and take it literaly. (Does the absurdity modern
world politics seem like Animal Farm to anyone else or is it just me?)

- Alan

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Received on Sun Oct 16 22:56:13 2005