Re: [tdf-discuss] LibreOffice general ideas and suggestions

Le 2010-10-07 08:16, Charles Marcus a écrit :
> On 2010-10-06 5:15 PM, Jon Hamkins wrote:
> > I agree MSO 2007 and 2010 should be the priority, but a big advantage of
> > LibO could be that it *can* read older formats.  Government regulations
> > and company policies often require documents to be retained for years
> > and sometimes decades.  MSO 2007+ no longer allows opening MSO<97
> > documents, because it is unable to do so securely.  If LibO can open
> > these older documents, it's one more reason to switch away from MSO.
>
> Precisely.
>
> Also, since the old formats are pretty much static now, problems should
> be minimal, but I also believe that people should still be able to
> submit problem documents in those older formats, so if it is something
> that can easily be fixed, it should/can be fixed. If not, then the
> developer(s) who looked at it should document as much as possible the
> resources that would be required to fix it, then submit it to a/the
> 'bug-bounty' list, so if the issue is near and dear to someone who has
> the money to pay to fix it, they can.

I often help people with broken systems, and if OpenOffice could open 
older .doc formats, that would be great! It also sells the suite quite 
quickly to the system owner, when you return it, they are usually happy 
to find out that they now have accessed (and proper page formatting) of 
their old files through OpenOffice (LibO). This is a plus for keeping 
the support for the old formats.

In all reality, the older formats are no longer being developed and 
aren't most of these offered in older versions of OpenOffice? I imagine 
there isn't any need to examine and reverse engineer the code anymore? 
Keeping them on the list of supported formats in the LibO "File->open 
would be nice.

Marc

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