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[Council] By-Laws for Hildonfoundation
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woody14619
2012-08-27 , 14:25
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Originally Posted by
wicket
It's a shame the document is in a proprietary format.
Reality is that many people have access to tools that open this "proprietary format". In fact there are no less than
three free viewers/editors available for the N900
capable of reading the document in this format: KOffice, AbiWord, and DocsToGo. The former two being able to edit it once opened, and the latter requiring a trial/paid version to edit. For desktop users, there's all that
and
OpenOffice. The PDF version (also "proprietary") has several opensource viewers available.
So can we
please
stop bickering about the container
format
now, and focus on the
content
?
Realistically, we're not looking for someone to
edit
the document and send it back to us. Getting a hundred marked up copies of the document mailed to us with random changes and no discussion on what needs to be addressed or why those changes are important would be impossible to manage, and would leave the
community
out of the discussion. The important part is the discussion, not the edit-ability of the document.
Said another way: It would be far more helpful if you opened it, read it, and made comments on the
content
instead of the
container
. The (open source) tools are easily available to do so...
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