Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 03:52:18PM +0200, Boaz Rymland wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir at cohens.org.il> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 09:44:21AM +0200, Boaz Rymland wrote:
> >
> > > Google docs is a good but not the best alternative. Google is
> > > yet-another-corporate that even if more "public friendly", not a fully
> > > M$-Office substitute.
> >
> > In other words: while an account at Google does not cost money,Google
> > Docs is just as proprietary as MS-Office and Acrobat Reader[1]. I would not
> > have wanted to be forced to have an account there in order to interact
> > with school.
> >
> > [1] PDF itself is not bad as it has some other good alternatives
> > implementations. However relying on in-line remarks in the PDF file,
> > which is, AFAIK, supported only by the Adobe reader, is not a good idea.
> 
> right, but don't forget that to in order to "read only"  a document, you
> don't need a google account - just a publicly readable document who's link
> you've got, AFAIK. That's of course hardly a full solution but I'm going to
> take it step by step. My daughter has yet to receive assignments so its
> only about the weekly schedule documented distributed every week. While
> using Google Docs to distribute it, the staff can become accustomed to
> Google Docs and maybe even appreciate its comfortableness (the latter is a
> NTH). At the same time, I'll have a more easier "marketing job" to do.

Are you interested in a read-only or  read-write format?

While it's your fight to pick and not mine, I'm not sure I'd be happy if
a result would be the replacement of one proprietary format with
another.

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