On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 22:15, Steven Shelton ste...@sheltonlegal.net wrote:
This is the only comment that I will make on this, and I think it's
pretty self-explanatory as to why MS formats need to be supported.
I work as an attorney. One of the frequent requirements from judges is
that we
On 09/14/2011 04:14 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 22:15, Steven Sheltonste...@sheltonlegal.net wrote:
This is the only comment that I will make on this, and I think it's
pretty self-explanatory as to why MS formats need to be supported.
I work as an attorney. One of the
On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 22:50, e-letter inp...@gmail.com wrote:
On 11/09/2011, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote:
Which MS Office file format is secret? They are all published here:
http://www.microsoft.com/interop/docs/officebinaryformats.mspx
The original poster chose the wrong word;
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On 9/10/2011 3:28 PM, Anthony Papillion wrote:
I've been thinking a lot about this lately as many of my clients are
coming to LibreOffice from Microsoft Office and I deal with both
packages quite a bit. Many times, one of the first things I do once
On 09/10/2011 03:28 PM, Anthony Papillion wrote:
I've been thinking a lot about this lately as many of my clients are coming to
LibreOffice from Microsoft Office and I deal with both packages quite a bit.
Many times, one of the first things I do once LibreOffice is set up is to show
clients
See the following proposal:
http://www.mail-archive.com/website@global.libreoffice.org/msg05999.html
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On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 22:28, Anthony Papillion papill...@gmail.com wrote:
I've been thinking a lot about this lately as many of my clients are coming
to LibreOffice from Microsoft Office and I deal with both packages quite a
bit. Many times, one of the first things I do once LibreOffice is
that creating a
plugin that helps Microsoft Offices users read .odf files is a lot easier than
constantly playing catchup with the secret Microsoft formats.
Anthony
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Should LibreOffice even support Microsoft
secret formats
with the secret Microsoft
formats.
Anthony
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Should LibreOffice even support
Microsoft secret formats?
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
From: twoho...@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 19:45:02 +
Makes sense but u
On 09/10/2011 04:08 PM, Anthony Papillion wrote:
I agree, but is not supporting saving in secret formats really isolating them
from the rest of the world? Especially if the other software can read the open
format, wouldn't it be preferable to just tell them 'don't worry about it,
you're
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 22:28, Anthony Papillion papill...@gmail.com wrote:
I've been thinking a lot about this lately as many of my clients are coming
to LibreOffice from Microsoft Office and I deal with both packages quite a
bit. Many times, one of the first things I do once LibreOffice is
On 2011-09-11, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
On 09/10/2011 04:08 PM, Anthony Papillion wrote:
I agree, but is not supporting saving in secret formats really
isolating them from the rest of the world? Especially if the other
software can read the open format, wouldn't it be preferable to just
formats.
Anthony
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Should LibreOffice even support Microsoft
secret formats?
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
From: twoho...@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 19:45:02 +
Makes sense but u need to be able
On 9/11/2011 9:54 AM, Nuno J. Silva wrote:
On 2011-09-11, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
On 09/10/2011 04:08 PM, Anthony Papillion wrote:
snip
Microsoft changes formats as a
market strategy.
As explained by Carl Shapiro and Hal Varian (1998) Information rules: a
strategic guide to the
is a lot easier than constantly playing catchup with the secret
Microsoft formats.
Anthony
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Should LibreOffice even support Microsoft
secret formats?
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
From: twoho...@gmail.com
Date
On 11/09/2011, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org wrote:
When you have a deliverable in a MSO format, then you must deliver in an
MSO format. This is often not negotiable.
Surely this is accounted for in the costs of you conducting such
business (i.e. buying a legal copy of each m$
On 11/09/2011, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote:
Which MS Office file format is secret? They are all published here:
http://www.microsoft.com/interop/docs/officebinaryformats.mspx
The original poster chose the wrong word; replace secret with proprietary
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If LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org did not support M$ Office file
formats, nobody would support them. Like it or not, the M$ Office
file formats, both the older ones and the newer XML based ones, are
the defacto industry standards. The greatest marketing point that OOo
and its variants,
Edwin
On Sun, 2011-09-11 at 20:28 -0400, Edwin Powell wrote:
If LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org did not support M$ Office file
formats, nobody would support them. Like it or not, the M$ Office
file formats, both the older ones and the newer XML based ones, are
the defacto industry
Makes sense but u need to be able to reach others. I think the edge is in
supporting a broader range of options not just the vendors. Those moving to
opensource solutions need an air of security that they are not isolated from
the rest of the world
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On 10/09/2011 20:28, Anthony Papillion wrote:
I've been thinking a lot about this lately as many of my clients are coming to
LibreOffice from Microsoft Office and I deal with both packages quite a bit.
Many times, one of the first things I do once LibreOffice is set up is to show
clients how
Which formats to you consider to still be secret? Microsoft has provided
free-to-the-public, downloadable specifications for a great number of formats
and protocols.
Have you checked the lists of those?
[I am not objecting to the plug-in strategy either way, just wondering whether
secrecy
, but there is still more work to be
done.
Anthony
From: dennis.hamil...@acm.org
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: RE: [libreoffice-users] Should LibreOffice even support Microsoft
secret formats?
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 13:14:57 -0700
Which formats
.
Anthony
From: dennis.hamil...@acm.org
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: RE: [libreoffice-users] Should LibreOffice even support Microsoft
secret formats?
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 13:14:57 -0700
Which formats to you consider to still be secret
From: dennis.hamil...@acm.org
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: RE: [libreoffice-users] Should LibreOffice even support Microsoft
secret formats?
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 13:14:57 -0700
Which formats to you consider to still be secret? Microsoft has provided
free
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