Re: [tdf-discuss] Do not support writing to OOXML format

On 31 December 2010 17:04, Cor Nouws <oolst@nouenoff.nl> wrote:

> Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote (31-12-10 13:14)
>
>  On 31/12/10 09:30, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:
> > > FYI for those that aren't aware. Microsoft office 2010 supports ODF
> > > format for opening and saving documents now.
> > So does 2007 SP2 as well. However in 2007 the opening of ods documents
> > has deliberately broken formulae....don't know whether they've "fixed"
> > this in 2010, or whether they even want to fix it...
>
> (No idea if someone already answered this somewhere else in this thread, so
> here I go ;-) )
>
> MS sticks (anyway up until now) with the ISO-certified version of ODF.
> In the mean time ODF evolves.
> Formulae support is close to final, and for months already, there is very
> little chance that there will be changes in the specs.
> Even more: the formulae definitions in ODF have to a high level been based
> on MS-implementations of formulae.
> So MS could have made a choice to to implement close to final ODF versions
> already.
> For OOo and others, it is completely logic and natural to offer support for
> close-to-final ODF specifications already. ODF is the native format plus
> that the open source suites develop so much faster, that it would be
> impractical not to implement them.


Considering the opportunity cost of developing export filters against other
development priorities is certainly a valid consideration. Of course if it
is work sponsored by someone who would not spend it on anything else that
means there is no effective opportunity cost.

Best,
> Cor
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