[libreoffice-users] Re: Writer crashing saving in docx format

Am 24.05.2012 16:27, Jay Lozier wrote:
> >
> If you are using Linux MSO is NOT an option because there is no Linux
> version of MSO.
>
> Stop assuming that someone has access to Windows or can afford to buy a
> retail copy of MSO. Many LO users have limited finances and can not
> afford to buy new software and possibly the hardware to run it.

He is perfectly right. Anyone wanting to work with one of the the most 
complicated file formats has to buy the one and only software that has 
been designed for that file format.
Assuming that some open source code monkeys spend their lives to hack 
equivalent software for free is mere hybris.

> MS is adding full ODF support in the next version of MSO

Dreams are free.

> Deal with reality and shut up about using MSO formats.

Deal with reality and stop spreading MSO formats. All we need to do in 
respect to MSO formats is never writing any OOXML files. Simply send 
back your ready made documents as PDF which always looks exactly as 
displayed on your screen (File>Send>Document as PDF).
If (and only if) collaboration on the same file is a requirement, then 
you send back the old binary file format (doc/xls/ppt) which is fully 
supported by MSO.
There is not a single technical reason why any user of LibreOffice 
should export OOXML and I wish LibO would stop trying to write this 
pestilence of a file format.


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