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A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe

From Adlbifhr Mjduhgfks <am@random.us>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe
Date 2016-10-08 15:09 +0000
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I could easily use GNU/Linux for EVERYTHING and suffer no loss
of any kind.

But there is always the issue of exchanging information (i.e.
documents) with other people.  The majority of these "others"
use Microjunk formats, and needless to say GNU/Linux cannot
handle these formats.  Traditionally, Microjunk formats were
always a weird amalgamation of binary streams that are closely
related tho their equally weird Component Object Model.  The
newer Microjunk OOXML format is more amenable to GNU/Linux
but it is far from being a truly open standard.

Richard Stallman outlined a strategy to entice people into
using more open formats for data exchange but, as one can
easily foresee, the strategy got nowhere:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.en.html

Most people are lazy and spiritless and could not muster the
aggressive energy needed to implement the change (that's why
they use Microjunk in the first place).

But Stallman's strategy is no longer needed.  Microjunk has
for some reason decided to allow its Office suite to actually
read and write ODF file formats, which are TRULY open formats
and which are natively produced by GNU/Linux LibreOffice.

Therefore LibreOffice ODF documents can be directly presented
to Microjunk users without any problems.  No conversion is
necessary.

Note that most Microjunk Office users won't even notice the
ODF extension and will just load and open as usual.  But there
still needs to be education and coercion to get Microjunk users
to actually save their documents in ODF formats for exchange
with GNU/Linux users -- and this will not be a simple matter.
After all, people who use Microjunk are so retarded as to be
literally uneducable.

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A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Adlbifhr Mjduhgfks <am@random.us> - 2016-10-08 15:09 +0000
  Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Se7en <se7en@firemail.cc> - 2016-10-08 19:33 +0000
    Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Adlbifhr Mjduhgfks <am@random.us> - 2016-10-08 21:47 +0000
  Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-10-09 10:17 -0400
    Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-09 15:25 +0000
      Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-09 12:56 -0400
        Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-10-09 13:41 -0400
          Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-10 09:11 -0400
            Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-10-10 09:27 -0400
              Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-10 09:47 -0400
                Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-10-10 10:29 -0400
                Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-10 13:13 -0400
                Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-10-10 13:21 -0400
                Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-10 16:40 -0400
                Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-10-10 17:02 -0400
                Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-10 17:55 -0400
        Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-09 23:43 +0000
          Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-10 09:16 -0400
            Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-10-10 09:34 -0400
              Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2016-10-10 08:41 -0500
                Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe GreyCloud <Cumulus@mist.com> - 2016-10-10 10:54 -0600
                Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-10 23:52 +0000
                Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe GreyCloud <Cumulus@mist.com> - 2016-10-10 22:00 -0600
                Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-11 12:49 +0000
              Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-10 09:50 -0400
                Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-10-10 10:44 -0400
                Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-10 13:15 -0400
              Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2016-11-01 10:03 -0700
          Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe fr314159@gmail.com - 2016-10-10 10:31 -0700
      Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Se7en <se7en@firemail.cc> - 2016-10-10 06:39 +0000
      Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-10-10 09:53 -0400
        Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-10 15:19 +0000
          Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-10-10 13:03 -0400
            Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-10 23:55 +0000
              Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-11 09:10 -0400
                Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-11 13:41 +0000
          Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-10 13:19 -0400
    Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-09 12:51 -0400
      Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Adlbifhr Mjduhgfks <am@random.us> - 2016-10-09 17:10 +0000
      Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-09 23:38 +0000
        Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-10 09:15 -0400
          Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-10-10 09:31 -0400
            Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2016-10-10 15:41 +0200
              Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-10-10 10:36 -0400
                Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2016-10-10 18:16 +0200
                Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2016-11-01 10:03 -0700
            Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-10-10 09:42 -0400
            Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-10 09:49 -0400
          Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe fr314159@gmail.com - 2016-10-10 07:10 -0700
            Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2016-10-10 09:20 -0500
    Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Adlbifhr Mjduhgfks <am@random.us> - 2016-10-09 17:03 +0000
      Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-10-10 09:18 -0400
        Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-10 09:45 -0400
          Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe fr314159@gmail.com - 2016-10-10 07:18 -0700
            Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2016-10-10 09:38 -0500
              Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2016-10-10 18:05 +0200
          Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-10 15:16 +0000
    Re: A GNU World in a Degenerate Universe Alexander Suvorov <axr.suvorov@yandex.ru> - 2016-10-10 14:08 +0300

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