On Thu, 7 May 2009, Dotan Cohen wrote:
MS supports the standard perfectly here. The problem is that the standard is not well defined.
Wrong. Standard is guideline. Supporting standard does not mean just did minimum implementation to follow the letter of the standard. To actually *support* it is to make sure the standard work, to be able to interoperable.
A newcomer to a standard is expected to learn from oldtimers how to do stuff, so Microsoft - as newcomer to ODF standard - should take a look to existing implementation on how to do the part the standard has not yet define. It has been done and Microsoft actually have the code (the CleverAge plugin), just put it there. In this particular case, there alternative: implement OpenFormula, which although still in the work, should be good enough for common files.
The fact that Microsoft choose something entirely different shows that Microsoft does not intent to *support* the standard, but only want to have a publication stunt.
I do not think that MS is working for interoperability.
Then it is useless.
The question is should OOo continue to render as it always has, or should it start working to be a drop-in replacement for the major office suite?
This is stupid statement. To be replacement OOo should open MS Office documents, i.e. legacy office format (.doc, .xls) and probably the OOXML. This already done to some degree.
In ODF, OpenOffice is one of the leader, and should stay in the lead. It is up to Microsoft to catch up.
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