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> Won't somebody please think of the children? ;-)
Eh ? You forgot to attach a picture of a cute third-world child crying
because hers AbiWord documents take too long to load and a 0800 / 1-800
phone number to send the patches to. The OLPC is a worthwhile
undertaking, but let's not loose the perspective here completely. The
OLPC is also a massive scale commercial project on which some big
companies are expecting to make money, and others are building an ultra
cool philanthropic image. So if your concern is really how this issue
impacts the OLPC, why not bug RedHat about it ? If this is such a big
deal for the OLPC, then I am sure they can get this implemented, and
submit a patch upstream; that is how Free Software is supposed to work.
If your concerns are not solely for the OLPC, then please let's not use
the OLPC as an instrument of emotional blackmail; it does nobody any good.
(OK, I got this out of my system, back to the issue.)
Would it make sense to be able to store jpgs as jpgs ? Sure, it would
make lot of sense. Would I welcome this in AbiWord ? Yes, I certainly
would. Is it a really serious problem not being able to do so ? I do not
believe it is, as I think inserting hi-resolution photographs into a
word-processing document is rarely necessary -- the way Free Software
works, it will happen when someone finds the arguments for doing it
personally more compelling than arguments for other things they might
want to do; there are, of course, ways to make even uncompelling
arguments convincing. ;-)
(BTW, normal embedded systems use a compressed file system on the flash,
so there is no advantage of insisting on using gzipped file format; to
the contrary, you end up doing a nearly useless round of
compression-decompression).
Tomas
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