Re: [tdf-discuss] ODF compatibility [was "Why Microsoft...]

Apologies for top posting, but I am writing from mobile. That article is 
totally inaccurate, as there wasn't any court case between Microsoft and 
the UK government. Microsoft announced a "best effort" support of ODF (as 
well as Google) based on the UK government decision for ODF, but the 
technical limitations of the office applications does not allow for 100% 
fidelity, as Word redlining is totally incompatible with the standard and 
Excel leap year bug does not allow to support date representation according 
to the standard calendar (so called Gregorian). Issues with OOXML are so 
many that perfect ODF compatibility will never be achieved by Microsoft Office.

Writing to members of UK parliament - who are not competent about document 
formats (the decision was inspired by a technical committee of 
international experts I was involved in, although I do not see myself as an 
expert) - or OASIS ODF technical committee (they look after ODF technical 
issues and not OOXML compatibility problems, which are a case of 
competitive marketing) will never trigger an answer.

I personally think that the discussion is relevant for LibreOffice 
advocates, because LibreOffice is ODF reference implementation and 
LibreOffice advocates should know how to position the software against 
other office suites. The case is not technical, as the document format is 
the most important lock in strategies for proprietary office suites.

Best, Italo


Il 8 Luglio 2016 07:26:55 Edmund Laugasson <edmund.laugasson@gmail.com> ha 
scritto:

> Dear all,
>
> There was also court case between Microsoft and UK government -
> http://www.itproportal.com/2015/03/30/microsoft-will-adopt-open-document-standards-following-government-battle/
>
> But it seems that Microsoft does not respect the results of that court case
> - still the incompatibilities exist - how to solve this? Does anybody in
> this list know more about that court case and possibly people who are
> behind that? I would like to investigate that case a bit more. I tried to
> contact with British parliament member but they did not respond even I used
> all honour titles respectfully.
>
> Thank you,
> Edmund Laugasson
>
> 2016-07-07 17:22 GMT+03:00 Joel Madero <jmadero.dev@gmail.com>:
>
> > > Is this the official statement of the OD-foundation or only yours?
> > >
> > > You know the GPL? This is a 100%-thing, too. You have to do it 100% or
> > > your are not allowed.
> > Well considering you're asking on a LibreOffice email list and not on
> > the OASIS email list - obviously I'm not speaking for OASIS
> > ("OD-foundation"). Feel free to email them with your questions as this
> > seems like the wrong place for this discussion anyways.
> >
> >
> > Best,
> > Joel
> >
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