[libreoffice-users] Re: CONVERTING A MICROSOFT TEMPLATE TO BE USED WITH LIBRE OFFICE

Le 22/04/2014 20:06, Urmas a écrit :


> Meanwhile, Libreoffice cannot open its own documents from 2001.

Urmas, you are right.

Yes, I too, remember a guarantee made by the LibreOffice project on its
inception to "future-proof" one's data against arbitrary changes in file
format or vendor support...funny how the wheel turns isn't it ?

The dev working on LO didn't like the StarOffice binary filter code, so
they got rid of it, simple as that - they certainly didn't care whether
people who had started using the "original" product, the one that gave
birth both to OOo and LO, over 10 years ago would still want that file
format supported - "data guarantee" I hear you say ? Bah, humbug.
Clearly a case of :"if you're not working on the codebase, we're not
listening to you, lalalala, sticks fingers in ears..."

There was nothing seriously broken about the binary filter code used to
support those binary sd* file types, but it was a hefty chunk of code to
get rid of from the code base, and met the goal of reducing "code clutter".

Then the LO project had the gall to sign itself up to some document
format project that will claim to support all those old document
formats...hahaha, the irony of it all...

In many respects, some open source projects are no better than closed
source ones where their management and communication is concerned. Inept
is inept, spin is spin, marketing is marketing - beauty is in the eye of
the holder, so to speak.

Well, thank you for listening to my little rant for today, I'll crawl
back under that rock I call LibreOffice QA, ROFLMAO.


Alex


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