On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 21:51 -0400, Charles Marcus wrote: > >>>>> >> ... I really wish the MS Word export with password protection was > >>>>> >> there! > >>>>> >> I was hoping to convert my organization over to OOo, but they are > >>>>> >> used > >>>>> >> to using MS Word passwords to "protect" sensitive documents. Not that > >>>>> >> the protection is any good, but that's what OOo would have to > >>>>> >> interoperate with in order to get management approval. > >> > >>> > >> > >>> Well i think you have answered your own question, move to a more secure > >>> encryption system and implement Open Office while at same time leaving > >>> the MS Word in place just as a legacy app for reading old docs. > > >> Oh, come on!! > >> > >> His request is perfectly reasonable. I too am happy to see OOo able to > >> open MS password protected files. How [EMAIL PROTECTED] hard would it be > >> to add > >> support for their lame password in the 'Saved As' version of a .doc file > >> too? Sometimes it seems to me that (some of) the OOo devs go out of > >> their way to be difficult, just to make some kind of political 'point' > >> similar to the one you tried to make above. > > > Perhaps you could contribute this feature to the codebase. I would thank > > you and so would thousands of others. > > Bite me Roderick.
Excuse me? Your response it hardly in keeping with what I asked. I see you are one of those who want others to do the work for them. Well there is an option. Consult http://bizdev.openoffice.org/project/bizdev/consultants.html find someone to pay and I am certain you can have the feature you want. In other words put your money where your mouth is. > Typical elitist nonsense. Anyone who knows anything > about programming, and has even given the OOo codebase a *cursory* > looksee, knows that writing anything more than a simple plug-in or macro > is something that is difficult to the *extreme*, and would require a > level of commitment (time and effort just in learning enough about the > code just to get to the point where they *might* be able to *begin* to > be productive) not possible to someone who is not being paid by SUN (or > someone else). So, your point is that someone else must do the work. See above URL. > > The fact is, the programmers *did* write the code enabling OOo to *open* > a MS password protected document. The fact is, they could *just* as > easily written the code to allow it to *save* it in reverse. They > *chose* not to do so - most likely for *political* reasons. > > >> How [EMAIL PROTECTED] hard would it be to add support for their lame > >> password in > >> the 'Saved As' version of a .doc file > > > a) The US has this stupid law known as the DMCA, which , for all > > practical purposes, defines ROT-13 as "a secure encryption scheme". > > > > b) Writing and distribution code that breaks that "secure encryption > > scheme", can be prosecuted under current us law as a felony. > > rot, and more rot. This is the same tired excuse that they used to not > support *opening* password protected files in OOo1. The legal argument > was easily demonstrated to be flawed, just as this application of it. > The DMCA *in* *no* *way* prevents OOo from doing this - that is just an > excuse. > Again I ask if you so desire, please contribute this feature yourself. -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
