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On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 22:28, Anthony Papillion <papillion@gmail.com> wrote:

I've been thinking a lot about this lately as many of my clients are coming to LibreOffice from 
Microsoft Office and I deal with both packages quite a bit. Many times, one of the first things I 
do once LibreOffice is set up is to show clients how to save in Microsoft format as opposed to 
.odf. It's actually one of the first questions they ask. Lately, I've been wondering about the 
wisdom of an open source package actively supporting a secret format like the Office ones.

Would it not be preferable to support *only* saving in the open document format and then 
providing a plugin for Microsoft Office users who needed it? IMHO, allowing users to save in 
secret formats just continues the problem. They're still using proprietary software, just 
packaged a different way.

Thoughts?


Which MS Office file format is secret? They are all published here:
http://www.microsoft.com/interop/docs/officebinaryformats.mspx

LibreOffice does not support them because there are not enough LO
contributors, not because the formats are secret.

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