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On 19/03/2014, Owen Genat <owen.genat@gmail.com> wrote:

For those interested, these can be found in the  ODF Implementor Notes
<https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/ODF_Implementer_Notes#LibreOffice_ODF_extensions>


Thank you. It is a worry that 17 out of 24 "features" are in fact
devoted to "interoperability" with m$. Seems to prove the hypothesis
that making LO a poor-man's m$-clone detracts from standards
compliance. The web page indicates that because development of
standards is (necessarily) slow, it is sensible for LO to break odf
validation by default. This is a very surprising conclusion for an
open software product; to adopt the m$ embrace, extend, extinguish
policy and leave standards development to "catch up". Any m$ fan
should be laughing at the strategic folly of LO...

So, new users to LO, be _very_ _very_ aware: LO documents by default
are not standards compliant, which minimises the possibility that such
documents created by LO in default mode will be accessible by other
(including future LO?) odf-compliant products.

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