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

On 1/1/2011 5:01 PM, James Wilde wrote:
> On Dec 30, 2010, at 18:27 , Larry Gusaas wrote:
>
> > I will not support or use LibreOffice
> > until it stops helping spread OOXML by enabling writing in this file format. There is absolutely no 
> > need to write in this proprietary format. To do so is contrary to the principle of using ODF and 
> > open source formats.
> I've read a lot of points of view in this thread, and received a lot of information.  For example, 
> I didn't know that the docx format was supposed to be MS's open document format.  I just thought it 
> was the latest update to MSO making everyone update to keep abreast.  So much for my knowledge of 
> MSO.

There was a huge battle over that; docx and its siblings are MS's "Office Open XML" (OOXML) formats, 
rushed through the ISO standards process with enormous still-existing problems. The standard was 
split into two parts -- the "Transitional" piece of the specification purports to document the 
implementation used since Office 2007, and the worst issues are in that part.

> As regards Larry's comment, I endorse it.  Read is right, write is wrong.
>
> Regarding the different pov's of posters about the advisability or not of writing docx, sometimes 
> you've just got to take a stand, no matter what.  It's a case for the marketing guys, not the 
> developers.
>
> //James

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