[libreoffice-users] Re: Should LibreOffice even support Microsoft secret formats?

Am 12.09.2011 02:28, Edwin Powell wrote:
> If LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org did not support M$ Office file
> formats, nobody would support them. Like it or not, the M$ Office file
> formats, both the older ones and the newer XML based ones, are the
> defacto industry standards. The greatest marketing point that OOo and

There is only one file format which
- resembles the whole feature set of OOo/LibO (which comes very close to MS)
- is perfectly well documented and supported
- without being technically too difficult to implement (even partial 
implementations give valid documents)
- is implementable without any legal issues, disclosure agreements, 
patent fees, binary enclosuers nor vendor specific implementation details.

Such a file format will never be actively supported by Microsoft. This 
was the core point why the whole software project around ODF started in 
the first place. And we were going to win the race until Novell entered 
the scene.
Controlling the daily used file formats _in_whatever_software_product_ 
is the strategic key point why MS formats are de-facto standards without 
implementing any standard at all.


--
For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+help@global.libreoffice.org
Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/
Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette
List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/
All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted