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

On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 23:41, Anthony Papillion
<anthony@cryptofreaks.tk> wrote:
> > Hi :)
> > MS don't implement their standard in the way that they wrote they would.  Having set a standard
> > anyone that follows that standard is guaranteed to produce things that are a little wonky when
> > opened in MS Office.  LO devs work at getting LO's implementation as wonky as MS's but the
> > wonkiness is the unknown factor.
>
> Hi Tom,
>
> Ok, I can accept that. But then, aren't we back to a 'secret format'? If I implement a standard 
> to write out a file a certain way and do it in another way that isn't documented then I'm not 
> following the standard and, thus, my filetype is secret. The only way it's *not* secret is if 
> they file is written to the standard without any deviations.
>
> At first, I thought 'ok, so this means MS has published a standard that other vendors can write 
> to and MS will has implemented that standard (in addition to their secret one) so that MSO can 
> always properly read other vendor created MSO files". But that's not the case. There are times, 
> it seems, when LibO files are improperly rendered in MSO.
>
> So, apparently, the 'standard' really doesn't mean anything because that's not really what 
> Microsoft is doing.
>
> Anthony

By that logic, LO uses a secret format as well. LO and OpenOffice.org
deviate from the ODF standard in more documented ways than MS Office
deviates from OOXML.


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