With regard to the quotation from me, yes, it is possible to find funding for improvements. There have been requests for bids from organization such as the OSB Alliance. It is difficult to know whether they have found someone to bid on the work they want though, at an affordable price.
The improved OOXML support was funded by an organization. You've seen Jürgen Schmidt's response on the difficulty there has been integrating that code into Apache OpenOffice. I don't doubt his appraisal. - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Jörg Schmidt [mailto:joe...@j-m-schmidt.de] Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 12:54 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org; dennis.hamil...@acm.org Subject: Re: Improved OOXML support? > > I find it really strange that it seems impossible to find > companies that are> willing to integrate corresponding filter > in AOO, as a normal commercial support. > > Probably because it is not an easy task, too much of a moving > target, and more.Yes, you can figure out a series of files, > but there will always be something that is not completely > compatible. This is absolutely not a problem, the compatibility already provides the LibreOffice would be enough (for now). > I suspect that a bigger detriment to someone building > commercial filters for AOO OOXML support is finding a > meaningful business model, Commercial filters are not the issue, but that someone would pay the filter development ready, but no company finds that implements this, at least by the companies that are listed here: http://www.openoffice.org/bizdev/consultants.html Greetings, Jörg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
