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

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> From: BRM <bm_witness@yahoo.com>
> > Even MS Office users (prior to  2007) have had  trouble with this docx 
fraud.
> >
>
> Perhaps LibO and all other Open  Source projects - and perhaps anyone 
> supporting 
>
> ODF for that matter - should  treat OOXML like Microsoft treats ODF and other 
> formats - as third party as  possible.
> In other words, read support should be something that users must  enable; Save 

> support should not be possible - it must be converted to either  an older MS 
> format (e.g. doc, xls) or ODF.
> We need to force MS to support  ODF - as others have pointed out ODF is quickly 
>
> becoming the world standard  at least at the government level - which means in 
> a 
>
> few years most  organizations that support governments will need to support ODF 
>
> too, and a  few years after that organizations that support those 
> organizations, 
>
> and so  forth. MS has lost the file format battle to ODF - it's just time 
> before 
>
> OOXML (especially) and their legacy formats are gone.
>
> The idea of  LibO/etc reading OOXML pushes the issue - just like MS did to so 
> many other  formats to get people to convert to their formats.
> After all, what's good for  the goose is good for the gander, no?
>
> Of course, all functionality should  be dually advertised - with explanations 
> as 
>
> to why.

Oh, and one other point - why risk the legal liability?
Even ISO OOXML is burdened by licensing issues; but then again - MS continues to 
not support ISO OOXML and instead use their own 'enhanced' version which 
probably has far more legal liabilities than ISO OOXML.

And while MS Office has moved on to newer versions of OOXML, ISO OOXML has not 
been updated - I'm not even sure Alex Brown pays attention to it any more as he 
seems to just be nit-picking ODF at the moment (see his posts on the ODF Office 
Comments list).

$0.02 USD

Ben


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