Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: x86_64 Windows build

Le 2010-11-05 05:10, Ian a écrit :
> On Fri, 2010-11-05 at 07:52 +0000, e-letter wrote:
> > LO is never going to overcome m$ products on their own platform(s).
> Agreed, by the time there is any chance of this the world will have
> moved to a different platform. In one way it already has since ARM based
> mobile computer devices massively outnumber x86 now.
>
> > The biggest market potential by far is mobile devices for ODF to
> > become the default format.
> Yup.

I don't agree totally with that statement. While Microsoft Works is 
likely to continue to be omnipresent, it is possible for LibreOffice to 
be a relatively important player on the Windows platform. For instance, 
Internet Explorer used to be the only browser on Windows computers; look 
at Firefox which is now a very important player, and Chrome which is 
making important inroads.

As for becoming useful on the phone, I think the cell-phone platform 
limits a lot the editing functions available. One possibility would be 
to have a no-frills word processor that would remember all image and 
style information, yet allow the cell-phone user to write the text as 
is. This means that a lot of thought and work has to be done before 
porting it on the phone, and that a good compatible software needs to 
exist on "real" computers. One of the strengths of LibreOffice is 
document compatibility and UI compatibility between platforms. Within 
limits, the same has to be extended to the newer platforms, otherwise 
people might as well compose in their e-mail software.

--
Michel Gagnon
Montréal (Québec, Canada) -- http://mgagnon.net

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