Re: [sc-dev] Article: OpenDocument office suites lack formula compatibility

2005-09-22 Thread Jody Goldberg
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 12:19:24PM +0200, Eike Rathke wrote: Hi dev, On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 23:33:36 +0200, Eike Rathke wrote: http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/09/09/192250tid=93 Thanks for the pointer. And for those who are interested, here is what came to my mind

Re: [sc-dev] Article: OpenDocument office suites lack formula compatibility

2005-09-22 Thread Niklas Nebel
Jody Goldberg wrote: What is the goal of an open-formula specification ? I'd assume it is to improve interoperability between versions and implementors of the standard. If that is the case then there is already a standard, MS Excel. Given the complexity and prevalence of it's evaluation

Re: [sc-dev] Article: OpenDocument office suites lack formula compatibility

2005-09-22 Thread Jody Goldberg
On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 08:33:44PM +0200, Niklas Nebel wrote: Jody Goldberg wrote: What is the goal of an open-formula specification ? I'd assume it is to improve interoperability between versions and implementors of the standard. If that is the case then there is already a standard, MS

Re: [sc-dev] Article: OpenDocument office suites lack formula compatibility

2005-09-22 Thread Eike Rathke
Hi Jody, On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 14:04:59 -0400, Jody Goldberg wrote: What is the goal of an open-formula specification ? I'd assume it is to improve interoperability between versions and implementors of the standard. This is also what I assumed. Which left me even more puzzled why the

Re: [sc-dev] Article: OpenDocument office suites lack formula compatibility

2005-09-22 Thread Kohei Yoshida
Hi Jody, Niklas, and Eike, On 9/22/05, Jody Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The time varying nature of MS Excel does have the potential for problems in the future. However, Microsoft is even more strongly bound by the chains of backwards compatibility than we are. I suspect that the