On 04/02/2010 17:58, Douglas St.Clair wrote:
On Feb 4, 2010, at 8:11 AM, Wm Stewart wrote:
OpenOffice is already 99% open, almost perfect with MS formats. It does a
really good job at interoperability. There is no need to debate it - we know
OpenOffice can handle MS formats, because it does such a great job already. My
tests with V3.2 show nearly perfect compatibility.
The quality of OO's ability to read and write MS file formats isn't a true
success, in my mind, because at any moment should OO gain traction Microsoft is
capable of making a change and rendering the quality of OO's reading and
writing to garbage. So that I can't be sure OO is always going to work. Which
really isn't a fair criticism of OO and should be a serious condemnation of MS
but that isn't the way the world sees it unfortunately :(
I think they'd have to be VERY careful over that - witness the huge
confusion and outcry concerning the introduction of ooxml and the
inability of Office versions prior to 2007 to read it....yes they
produced a pack for prior versions but even that has it's problems...
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