On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 17:58:07 PM +1000, Bob Long ([email protected]) wrote: > Johnny Rosenberg wrote: > >Well, now much helpful, but all I can say is just avoid to use the > >Microsoft formats as far as possible. Since Microsoft's file formats > >(except those OOXML things) are not open formats
Calling OOXML open is... let's say optimistic. > I thought the Microsoft file formats were now published: > http://www.microsoft.com/interop/docs/OfficeBinaryFormats.mspx I recommend everybody thinking that OOXML is open and/or that publishing a spec is enough to make a format actually usable (including the person to whom I answered yesterday, the one who was talking about "complete success" in MS Office compatibility) to read: "How to hire Guillaume Portes" http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/01/how-to-hire-guillaume-portes.html and the other links in the Resources section of "Just Say No to OpenXML": http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9594#mpart8 Marco -- Should water be public or private? Australian, of course: http://stop.zona-m.net/node/52 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
