Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc corrupted an Excel xlsx file, should I report a bug?

On 07/09/2011, Andreas Säger <villeroy@t-online.de> wrote:
> Am 07.09.2011 09:56, Roelof Oomen wrote:
...
> > Should I file a bug? Or is someone interested in the file in order to
> > improve the xlsx saving abilities of Calc?

To reiterate, the priority for calc is improvement in native file
format behaviour. If you want to save in m$ formats why have you not
bought m$o???

> - Saving xlsx in Calc helps MS to spread a file format that has been
> bribed through the standardization boards to fight the existing ODF
> standard (odt, ods, odp, odg).

This is an incredible distinction between m$ formats. The undeniable
fact is, saving any document in _any_ m$ format maintains the
dominance of these formats.

> - For MS incompatibility is a feature.
>
> "Compatibility" can not be a one-way street.

As proposed in previous posts, it should be for LO: import in any
format, create only odt/(x)html/pdf etc. formats.

> Solution #1:
> Send back an xls version of that file and ask them to exchange
> spreadsheets in that format.

Better still, send in ods and ask the recipient to use LO. If the
suggestion is declined, buy m$o. When minor incompatibility is
discovered between m$ hardware and software, such bugs should be
published to m$ and not here!


> On top of all this, I am convinced that LibreOffice must not write MS
> OOXML. This is an anti-feature against our own interests.

Would be interested to hear your explanation why other m$ formats are
_not_ against the interests of LO (i.e. increased _visible_ usage of
odt. Using LO to write m$ formats should be considered invisible
usage, of what benefit exactly?).

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