jonathon wrote:
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Regina Henschel wrote:
I want to discuss it here, because I do not like the current behaviour
of OOo.
The issue is that Microsoft wilfully, deliberately, and intentionally
creates documents that do not conform to ODF standards and practices.
I'd like to clarify two terms here:
Conformance = Implementation meets Specification/Standard
Interoperability = Implementation meets Implementation
Microsoft is indeed creating valid ODF documents in regard to
spreadsheet formulas, hence they conform, Regina is right. The problem
is that these documents are not interoperable with other ODF
implementations and this is likely a PR leverage.
Two interesting readings predicting this issue:
Jim Clark <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clark_%28XML_expert%29>
raising this issue at the ODF comment ML in February 2005:
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office-comment/200502/msg00000.html
Tim Bray <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Bray> in a blog about the
OOoCon 2005:
http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2005/10/01/Open-Office-Conference
(see section "Bad Formula Trouble")
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Best regards,
Peter
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