Re: [Inkscape-devel] Joining GNOME Office

[David Bolack <dbolack electricmulch com>]

At 09:59 AM 2/19/2004, Bryce Harrington wrote:


> But more importantly I wanted to emphasize that a _strategy_ is needed.
> For example, with Inkscape our strategy for competing effectively with
> OO Draw is pretty straightforward.  First, we shoot for gaining really
> good SVG compatibility (OO Draw is weak here, and it seems like SVG is
> growing to become an extremely important file format in the open source
> community).  Second, we try to make the project very enjoyable to work


 And as important as working with the rest of open source is, it's also 
important to be reasonably compatible with major closed source apps. So if, 
for example, Illustrator creates slightly broken SVG's (I'm not picking on 
Illustrator, I'm not entirely sure it will export them, even.) you need to 
be able to cope with that somehow.