Nick Hilliard wrote: > > Martin Rex wrote: > > > > While I do have OpenOffice on about half of my dozen computing environments, > > none of them is sufficiently "new" to process PPTX. I'm a developer > > and need my time for work, rather than constantly wrangling of software > > updates of software that I hardly use myself, like OpenOffice. > > I agree. OOo has only supported pptx for the last 3 years, and you're > right that it's totally unrealistic to expect that everyone upgrade any of > their installations within this sort of time-frame. Correct. "Upgrading" an installation takes me a full week until it works as smoothly as the original working environment. I don't have more than one week per year available for such waste, and about 10 different productive computing environment, which results in a useful lifetime of a work environment of 10 years. > > Personally, I'm pretty upset that I can't display any of these new-fangled > formats on my VT52. I put this down to sheer bloody-mindedness on the part > of the IETF. It would be a pretty bad idea for the IETF to join the planned obsolescence choir for computing environments so that any Tablet you buy today will be unable to visualize stuff that will be uploaded to the IETF datatracker in late 2014. -Martin _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf