Sorry for my earlier email being incomplete, I was typing on my phone and it sent because of an errant finger.
What I was trying to say is that I recall something very similar to this happening a while back and the company cried foul when the open source software used their proprietory code and used it as an excuse to lambast open source in general. I will try to recall the exact details and reply to this thread when I do (or someone else may well recall before me in which case please put me out of my misery :p) Regards Greg On 12 July 2010 13:43, Gregory Fenton <[email protected]> wrote: > including code from them means they can cry foul with regard to their > intellectual property.I am not > > On 12 Jul 2010 12:58, "Samphan Raruenrom" <[email protected]> wrote: > > MS Office binary formats are no longer a secret after MS release the spec > > http://www.microsoft.com/interop/docs/OfficeBinaryFormats.mspx > > in Feb 2008. > > > > Does this help improve the quality of the MS Office binary filters in > > OpenOffice.org in any way? Since we no longer need to rely on > > reverse engineering only. > > > > -- > > _/|\_ /Samphan Raruenrom./ Open Source Development Co., Ltd. > > Tel: +66 2 2699889 Fax: +66 38 773128 Web: www.osdev.co.th > > <http://www.osdev.co.th/> > > Twitter: @osdev <http://twitter.com/osdev> Facebook: > > www.facebook.com/osdev <http://www.facebook.com/osdev> >
