Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: For MS interoperability- Legacy formats or OOXML?

Wayne,

Sorry for the delay, I didn't realize that the mailinglist was filling
up my Gmail inbox, overflowing into pages and pages of unread messages
that can only been seen by paging Older Messages. I am being
overwhelmed by the mailinglist, and had to unsubscribe to get it back
under control. I will try the digest later, after I get caught up.

About that Gates memo. I have boxes containing towers of CDs -- that
memo is on one of the discs. The collections got all mixed up through
a couple of moves, and I have no idea where the key CD is. I don't
relish having to look for that. That's why I suggested Googling ODF
vs. OOXML. The memo appeared genuine, but I didn't try to verify its
authenticity. Still, Microsoft's attempt to supplant the established
ODF standards with a complicated OOXML standard is well-documented by
many independent industry observers. My point was that we should avoid
supporting that suspect "developing standard," and do all we can to
encourage document sharing in legacy Office formats or the universal
ODF standards.

This is strictly my opinion. I do not claim any special expertise in
the document format war.

On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 7:35 PM, Wayne Borean <wborean@gmail.com> wrote:
> Roger,
>
> Do you still have a copy of that memo?
>
> Wayne
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 7:03 PM, Roger T. Imai <roger.t.imai@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > Problems with OOXML conversions could be seen as intended by design by
> > Microsoft, which is attempting to supplant the simpler OpenDocument
> > Format standard with its own complex inscrutable standards.
> >
> > Years ago, I found a copy of a memo that appeared to be written by
> > Bill Gates in response to an accidental posting of the proprietary
> > MSOffice Document standards on a public board -- the standard was
> > quickly grabbed by programmers, and shortly after all the MS Office
> > competitors released versions that were completely Microsoft Office
> > XP-compliant.
> >
> > But, you can probably find better information that I can provide here
> > by Googling  ODF vs OOXML .
> >
> > I believe that the legacy Office formats are handled quite well by
> > open source Office applications because they had the original coding
> > for it, and that Microsoft is attempting to re-establish
> > format-dominance with its version of OOXML which is so complicated
> > that it is difficult to convert.
> >
> > > The OOXML format doesn't seem to be properly implemented by MS Office
> > even tho i
> > > thought they drew up the specifications for it (i could easily be wrong
> > about
> > > that and don't care if i am).  Ahh well.  Hopefully it will all settle
> > down a
> > > bit soon.
> > > Regards from
> > > Tom :)
> >
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