>>> You might start here: >>> http://www.robweir.com/blog/2009/05/update-on-odf-spreadsheet.html >>>
For which I counter, right there in the comments: http://blogs.gnome.org/mortenw/2005/06/16/opendocument-for-spreadsheets/ >> Here's another link: >> http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2009050712493241 >> This is a better link. The author is obviously biased (I am familiar with Growlaw) but she makes terrific points and backs them up. She seems to be of the opinion that MS should have looked to OOo as a reference implementation, as the other vendors have. This is a good point, and one that I personally hold as well, but "should have" is irrelevant at this stage. At this point, the question is now what will OOo do? Ensure compatibility or not? > And another: > http://www.robweir.com/blog/2009/05/follow-up-on-excel-2007-sp2s-odf.html > Here we see standards incompliance, and even an MS rep in the comments. So long as the MS product is not standards-compliant, then of course there is no practical way to be interoperable with them. However, it does seem that the non-standard code in the last blog post is not representative of other interoperability problems with MSO, in which both OOo and MSO are standards compliant but in different manners. In those issues, in my opinion, OOo should strive for interoperability even if MSO does not. That is how OOo got it's toe in the door with DOC support, and it should continue with the practice with ODF support. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
