Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: The Document Foundation's response to Her Majesty's Government...

Hi :)
Quite.

It was only older versions of MS Office that had problems reading
formulae.  Everyone else was easily able to correctly implement the
800 page specification as set as an ISO standard.

The 11,000 page OOXML ISO standard doesn't appear to have been
correctly implemented by anyone, least of all MS Office.  The
undocumented changes with the various "transitional" versions and
incompatibilities between them seem to create problems, as seen many
times on this mailing-list.

ODF is drawn up by a committee of hundreds of organisations (including
MS) and therefore much less subject to the whimsical nature of a
single profit-making organisation and less able to be made
deliberately incompatible in order to sell more product as appears to
be the case with OOXML implementations.


The Extensions and such are nothing to do with the format at all.
They are to do with the programs that implement the format.
Personally i never use any.  Some people use lots.  [shrugs]  Not a
big deal either way.
Regards from
Tom :)




On 5 March 2014 07:37, pete nikolic <pg.nikolic1@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Mar 2014 09:31:06 +0700
> "Urmas" <davian818@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > "Tom Davies":
> >
> > Do you think ODF stands a chance with its incompatible changes between 1.0
> > and 1.1, or formulas fiasco?
> > Or the lack of documentation and a heap of undocumented extensions AOO/LO
> > uses?
>
> Still being paid by M$ Corp i see ..
>
>
> Tut Tut Tut
>
>
> Pete .
>
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