Re: [tdf-discuss] Old Bugs

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Peter Rodwell <peter@intorg.org> wrote:

> I have only today joined this discussion so I don't know whether this has
> already been discussed or not.
>
> There are two reasons why I have just paid money to upgrade to Office 2010
> instead of switching to OO/LO:
>
> 1. Complete file compatibility. I frequently handle documents with very
> complex
> formatting. These come from my clients, all of whom use MS Office. I
> translate and edit the documents and return them. They *must* retain 100%
> of
> the original formatting. So far this has not been the case with Oo.
The point of the MSO-to-ODF and ODF-to-MSO converters not working 100% and
being a deal-breaker has been raised several times already. But I am not
sure as to what is being done as far as development. I think the devs are
just trying to clean up the existing code, work in long awaited patches and
stabilize for the 3.3 release right now.

But for the future, if LO is going to battle for market share with MSO,
(which the world currently uses now), the converters will have to be fixed.
There are two sides, Side one is that Microsoft does not follow standards
and ODF does so we should just make LO work to standards. Side two is we
should play Microsoft's game until we take their game away from them.

I see two priorities for long-term growth:
File compatibility should be a priority, in the very least opening and
saving MSO files with full compatibility

ODF adoption should also be a priority, the more LO can get the world to use
ODF instead of Microsft, the more people will use Libre/Open Office and the
more likely the chance Microsoft will have to fix their non-standards
compliant, broken file format.

just my thoughts....

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