discuss: If open office xml is ever used in accompaniment to Open
Office, it will spell the death of OOo!
Alan Frayer wrote:
Scott Dunn wrote:
After reading this article:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20061208135621706,
I'm requesting that you do not accept code for the Open Office XML
format
from Microsoft. If Novell wants to offer that in their own version,
that is
fine. But everyone else is going to be locked in to the Microsoft
format if
they use this format in their documents.
While I understand what you are saying, I wouldn't be surprised if the
Users list wouldn't be shortly inundated with requests for the ability
to read the Office Open XML file format, much as we see requests for
the MS Works format. And in this case, we wouldn't have an excuse not
to provide it.
I think we need to support it to the same extent we support the other
Word formats, continuing to default to ODF. If Microsoft then rescinds
their open use license, we only need to remove it from the next
release, or build a workaround as we have for the existing Word formats.
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