Rob mentioned that he would like a user's perspective. As a user, I prefer usability over adherence to some dogma.
Looking at the issue pragmatically, the ASF licence, as I understand it, means that Apache OpenOffice has the best chance of promoting the ODF as a standard because it provides commercial entities with an incentive to collaborate. The same commercial realities apply when weighing up practicability against philosophy. Reality trumps theory any day. Thirdly, I do not favour heavy-handed censorship in this or any other medium for exchanging opinions. - Terry ----- Original Message ----- > From: Dennis E. Hamilton <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: > Sent: Wednesday, 18 January 2012 4:39 AM > Subject: RE: OOo, ODF 1.2 extended format and Word: is the possibility to > open OOo generated file by word ed as bug? > > 1. I agree that this is something to try at the Plugfest. > > 2. It would be unfortunate were Microsoft ODF 1.2 support to require the > attribute (thus rejecting existing OO.o and LO documents that don't have it) > or to produce it (thus causing the down-level problem for themselves in their > existing ODF 1.1 consumers). > > - Dennis > > My understanding is that Microsoft intends to report on provisions for ODF in > the next version of Microsoft Office at the time of the Brussels plugfest. > That > may not be current information, it is just the only information I've seen. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rob Weir [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 09:19 > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: Re: OOo, ODF 1.2 extended format and Word: is the possibility to > open > OOo generated file by word ed as bug? > > On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Rob, I agree completely with your sentiment concerning slavish adherence to > a specification when that adherence breaks interoperability in unfortunate > and > costly (support-wise) ways. > [ ... ] > > It would be good to know what Microsoft will do with their next > version of Office as well, e.g., whether they will have this same > issue. I'd hate to make a change, and then have next version of > Office suddenly require that attribute and reject docs otherwise. > Maybe something to try at the Brussels Plugfest. > > [ ... ] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
