Christopher,
Interesting question... maybe I've been too indoctrinated by MS, but my poor lil mind can't comprehend how a word processor could be written to display any and all documents created by future versions... considering that one of the main points of a software upgrade is new functionality. This implies new objects, or new ways of displaying objects, which weren't available in the previous software version(s). It strikes me as similar to expecting MS Paint to open animation files.
On the bright side, I've never had trouble opening a PREVIOUS version document in OpenOffice... once that pre-2.0beta file format naming switch was made, anyway :) This is something I HAVE struggled with, far too often, with MS products... backward compatibility. Eurgh.
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/B/backward_compatible.html
- Naomi
I thought that part of the philosophy of OOo was permanent access to one's data. That is, files created in any version of OpenOffice.org would always be useable by any version of OOo. This was to set it apart from MS Office, who's frequent changes of file format are much-derided as forcing people into an unending cycle of involuntary upgrades. This is also one of the advantages that I have often touted to prospective users.
If I understand the below comments accurately, once 2.0 final is released, if it continues to use a different file format, then if any user sends me a 2.0 version file, I would either have to abandon hopes of opening that file, or I would have to upgrade my 1.1.x to 2.0. Which maybe I wouldn't want to do.
Do I misunderstand the philosophy and prior claims of OOo?
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