----- Original Message ---- > From: BRM <[email protected]> > > > > Even MS Office users (prior to 2007) have had trouble with this docx fraud. > > > > Perhaps LibO and all other Open Source projects - and perhaps anyone >supporting > > ODF for that matter - should treat OOXML like Microsoft treats ODF and other > formats - as third party as possible. > In other words, read support should be something that users must enable; > Save
> support should not be possible - it must be converted to either an older MS > format (e.g. doc, xls) or ODF. > We need to force MS to support ODF - as others have pointed out ODF is > quickly > > becoming the world standard at least at the government level - which means > in >a > > few years most organizations that support governments will need to support > ODF > > too, and a few years after that organizations that support those >organizations, > > and so forth. MS has lost the file format battle to ODF - it's just time >before > > OOXML (especially) and their legacy formats are gone. > > The idea of LibO/etc reading OOXML pushes the issue - just like MS did to so > many other formats to get people to convert to their formats. > After all, what's good for the goose is good for the gander, no? > > Of course, all functionality should be dually advertised - with explanations >as > > to why. > Oh, and one other point - why risk the legal liability? Even ISO OOXML is burdened by licensing issues; but then again - MS continues to not support ISO OOXML and instead use their own 'enhanced' version which probably has far more legal liabilities than ISO OOXML. And while MS Office has moved on to newer versions of OOXML, ISO OOXML has not been updated - I'm not even sure Alex Brown pays attention to it any more as he seems to just be nit-picking ODF at the moment (see his posts on the ODF Office Comments list). $0.02 USD Ben -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
