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[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 10:13:55PM +0300, Etzion Bar-Noy wrote:
> Hi.
> I love those with the flare in their eyes, and their self-righteousness. The
> majority of the crowd, in Israel especially, will not be able to read ODT.
> Since PDF is good enough format, those who did not "bother" to read your
> document were, well, so filled with their hatred that they forgot the goal -
> reach maximum newbies, both on Linux and on Windows.

The majority of the users in Israel should be able to read PDF and/or
HTML. Both of those exports work fine from OO.o .

> 
> Since probably all of this mailing list members use OpenOffice, and since
> this program has been known to open DOC format for the last, say, seven
> years (with variable levels of accuracy), the DOC and PDF formats would be
> fine for all your customers. The self-righteousness are probably not your
> crowd.

If the author hopes to get any help in actual editing from others, then
using MS-Word format makes it much less available for the majority of
the potential contributors.

If the author does not want any "patches" - the actual format is
meaningless.

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