Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS file compatibility in 4.0+ - comments in .doc

Hi :)
I kinda agree with most of what Pedro says except that MS Office already is making an effort to be 
ODF compatible.  We are already beginning to have an impact on MS and need to make sure we push 
that further by using ODF more and more.  

MSO 2010 and 2007 use an ancient version of ODF that no-one else has used for new documents for 
many years but their MSO 2013 and 365 uses the current version that everyone else has been using 
since way before 2007.  


Note that if you do have documents that use the older version of ODT then those still work fine in 
current and probably future versions of LibreOffice, OpenOffice (and the rest).  The devs wrote a 
new patch a few months ago to bring all the older specs together in a much more streamlined way to 
make sure of that.  Also, just like the current spec, the older one is fully documented and was 
implemented exactly as written-up.  So, even in 30 or 40 years or longer it's highly likely to be 
able to get someone to quickly cobble together some sort of reader.  

Regards from 
Tom :)  





> ________________________________
> From: Pedro <pedlino@gmail.com>
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
> Sent: Wednesday, 14 August 2013, 11:25
> Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS file compatibility in 4.0+ - comments in .doc
>
>
> e-letter wrote
> > Are you seriously suggesting programmers' time should be spent on a
> > minor proprietary format comment feature instead of improving software
> > QA for LO odf??? Astonishing.
>
> If LO would ignore compatibility with DOC then it would become an island
> (which only used the ODF file format). If documents can not move back and
> forward between people who use MSO and LO then people will stop using LO.
> It's as simple as that.
>
> So, yes, LO programmers have to "waste" time to make DOC 100% compatible
> because you can be damn sure that MS will NOT make an effort to be 100% ODF
> compatible.
>
> Just my 2 cents ;)
>
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