Re: [libreoffice-users] RE: Compatibility problems between LO Calc and EXCEL 2007 and 2010 (XLSX)

Hi :)
Sadly i think that without read/write for the most commonly used file-formats it 
would be almost completely impossible to get LibreOffice out there.  Hopefully 
as people get used to using LibreOffice they begin to find the native formats 
are much better.  As LibreOffice and others become more widely used then the 
better formats will become more widely used.  But to demand that everyne 
switches in order to use LibreOffice is more likely to result in people just 
continuing to use proprietary stuff because that's what 'everyone else' uses.
Regards from
Tom :)




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From: Andreas Säger <villeroy@t-online.de>
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Tue, 23 August, 2011 16:21:11
Subject: [libreoffice-users] RE: Compatibility problems between LO Calc and 
EXCEL 2007 and 2010 (XLSX)

In my honest opinion, write support for OOXML is a mistake. LibreOffice
should not help spreading a file format which has been bribed through the
standardization boards for 2 reasons: fight the ODF standard and establish a
non-free XML format for MS applications only.
Microsoft's "Office Open XML" restores a certain level of incompatibility
while having something with "open" and "office" and "XML" in the name
anyway.

What MS 2007 produces by default is the "extended version" of OOXML. It
represents Microsoft's conception of an office document beyond any standard.
With Office 2010 they started supporting the "official" OOXML version which
they bribed through the boards but even that one is an incredibly
complicated mess, impossible to implement by anybody except Microsoft.

MS Office 2007 introduced a lot of new features tailored to the new file
formats, and of course the new file formats can represent these new features
where the old binary formats must fail to do so. 
So the new file format may store things that can not be exposed by any
software other than resent MS Office versions whereas the old binary format
supports almost the same feature set as ODF (after 20 years of
co-evolution).
As long as MS Office comes with the same binary file filters as in Office
XP, there is no technical reason to exchange OOXML documents between
LibreOffice and MS software. 


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