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Re: DocView now supports OpenDocument & MS Office formats
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: DocView now supports OpenDocument & MS Office formats |
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Sun, 02 Jan 2011 17:11:34 -0500 |
Oracle's stated intent is to supply the Oracle OpenOffice deliverables
with SaaS capabilities. This is not a theoretical matter, its
happening.
"SaaS capabilities" is rather vague -- could you tell me what this
refers to?
The issue is important because OpenOffice is important. I am not yet
sure it related to Emacs, but I should learn about it anyway.
In order for an Emacs to gain ODF support via the proposed docview.el
interface one must leverage python/pyuno/UNO/OpenOffice/Java
The point is:
- interaction with the UNO bridge is not (necessarily) simple RPC;
That is too vague to draw conclusions from.
- the UNO SDK is a poorly specified;
That would be a problem if we cannot make it work.
- Its protocol is compromised in lieu of the Sun/Oracle merger;
"Compromised" is rather vague, so I am not sure this is an issue.
- asking Emacs users to embrace these dependencies just to gain ODF
support is tantamount to a tacit endorsement of Oracle's reframing
of software as service in a distributed manner;
I am not sure "Software as a Service in a distributed manner" is
coherent. Often the alternative to a centralized network service is a
distributed system in which users' machines cooperate.
Thus, I have doubts about this conclusion.
- asking Emacs users to install the python/pyuno/UNO/OpenOffice/Java
dependencies just to gain ODF support is ironic given the extent to
which the Emacs-Devels have endeavored to keep the Emacs footprint
small;
People who want to use ODF need to install OpenOffice anyway,
so I am not sure this is a terrible problem.
If there's another way to do the job, it might be better.
--
Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation
51 Franklin St
Boston MA 02110
USA
www.fsf.org, www.gnu.org
- Re: DocView now supports OpenDocument & MS Office formats, Richard Stallman, 2011/01/01
- Re: DocView now supports OpenDocument & MS Office formats, Tassilo Horn, 2011/01/03
- Re: DocView now supports OpenDocument & MS Office formats, Richard Stallman, 2011/01/03
- Re: DocView now supports OpenDocument & MS Office formats, Tassilo Horn, 2011/01/04
- Re: DocView now supports OpenDocument & MS Office formats, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/01/04