On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 22:28, Anthony Papillion <papill...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I've been thinking a lot about this lately as many of my clients are coming > to LibreOffice from Microsoft Office and I deal with both packages quite a > bit. Many times, one of the first things I do once LibreOffice is set up is > to show clients how to save in Microsoft format as opposed to .odf. It's > actually one of the first questions they ask. Lately, I've been wondering > about the wisdom of an open source package actively supporting a secret > format like the Office ones. > > Would it not be preferable to support *only* saving in the open document > format and then providing a plugin for Microsoft Office users who needed it? > IMHO, allowing users to save in secret formats just continues the problem. > They're still using proprietary software, just packaged a different way. > > Thoughts? >
Which MS Office file format is secret? They are all published here: http://www.microsoft.com/interop/docs/officebinaryformats.mspx LibreOffice does not support them because there are not enough LO contributors, not because the formats are secret. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
