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- Subject: Re: ODF usage restrictions
- Sent: 4/17/96 4:39 AM
- Received: 4/17/96 7:01 AM
- From: Serge Froment, sfroment@odyssee.net
- Reply-To: ODF-Interest@CILabs.ORG
- To: OpenDoc Development Framework Discussion List, ODF-Interest@CILabs.
-
- > The ODF documentation, when last I read it, contained the caveat that
- >ODF could be used with no restrictions as long as it was for Macintosh or
- >Windows development. I am not sure if this has been brought up before, but
- >I personally don't want any restrictions on what operating systems I am
- >able to port to in the future (as long as I'm willing to do the work to
- >port the framework to another operating system, I should be able to use
- >it).
- >
- > Effectively, adoption of ODF for a project will lead to code which has
- >ODF code and concepts intrinsically embedded within it. This would make for
- >an _extremely_ unpleasant rewrite if one had to port to an environment
- >within which use of ODF was not allowed -- porting the framework ourselves
- >would actually be a more pleasant prospect.
- >
- > Is there any way we can get blanket approval for use of ODF on all
- >platforms? (if not, why not, and exactly what guarantees _do_ we have?)
-
-
- Henri,
-
- I have exactly the same concerns. When pushing OpenDoc projects inside my
- company, I was advocating to my boss that ODF is the best framework I have
- seen so far, and if we want to support a platform not yet supported by ODF,
- we could port the framework as easily as if it were our own code.
-
- I think I understand why Apple sets this restriction, but I feel a solution
- that fulfill both Apple and Developers interest sould be found.
-
- Serge
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