[Sugar-devel] Deployment feedback braindump

[Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero]

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Bernie Innocenti<bernie at codewiz.org> wrote:
> El Wed, 12-08-2009 a las 15:16 +0100, Lucian Branescu escribió:
>> In any case, PDF is a good presentation format. Why make it
>> significantly more complex for small-to-none improvements to its main
>> purpose?
>
> Agreed.
>
> And, btw, as people are gradually loosing the habit of printing on
> paper, document formats designed to paging and static layout will slowly
> decline.
>
> How much have you been using OpenOffice Write lately?  Or MS Word?  Or
> even TeX?  Now compare this with email, wiki and HTML.
>
> I think few people will care about PDF 10 years from now -- maybe just 5
> years from now.  With or without Javascript ;-).

i wish i was so optimistic but  in some parts of the world the time
frame for this change could be higher than 10 years.




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