[libreoffice-users] Re: Presentation conversion to/from Powerpoint - layout

Am 02.03.2012 09:41, Andreas Säger wrote:

> OK, can open source make my car fly and swim if I only wish hard enough?
> There are limitations in software development just like there are
> limitations in the physical technology.
> MS has the big truck and refuses to carry the comparatively small ODF
> payload. Instead they do nothing and watch how "we" spend a lot of time
> struggling with their huge payload on a comparatively small truck.

Forgot something: MS is well aware of the psychological impact. To the 
innocent users our project looks silly in its ongoing struggle with an 
ever growing MS payload, whereas they do not expose any weakness simply 
doing nothing.

> Finally, LibreOffice 6 will be an alternative OOXML suite with ODF as
> legacy file format to be dropped in version 7.
That will be the point when MS intruduces the next shit.



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