Re: [us-marketing] European IT authorities want better OOXML in Libre/OpenOffice

On 15/12/2011 16:37, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote:

> If a group of developers want to take the time and reverse engineer the
> OOXML format, like others did for DOC and the other MSO formats, I am
> glad of their work.  Hopefully their work will be fully open-source so
> packages like OOo and LO can use it when their work is ready to use. 
> What "Apache License 2.0" actually means could make or break LO's
> ability to use it.  Also, when they write the code, will it be in JAVA
> or Python?  LO is moving away from JAVA so JAVA-only code for this OOXML
> support would be going backwards.

The press release is a huge piece of political crap, which is quite
usual in old Europe. The reality is that the improvement will be for LO
(the bidding document is extremely clear about the code base) although
they will be licensed under AL2, again for "political reasons" (which
will allow LO to use them without problems).

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