Re: DocView now supports OpenDocument & MS Office formats

[Tassilo Horn]

Jason Rumney <address@hidden> writes:

>> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Uno/FAQ#How_do_I_remotely_connect_to_an_OpenOffice.org_running_on_a_different_machine.3F
>>
>> Isn't this sort of stuff a slippery slope to Software as Service?
>
> No. This is plain old RPC. The "service" is Free Software running
> under the user's own control.

Furthermore, there's no need to let the conversion take place in a
remote OO.org instance (although that's a nice feature).  Usually,
unoconv simply starts a headless OO.org instance locally and let that do
the conversion.

Bye,
Tassilo