[tdf-discuss] Re: OpenOffice dead and burried?

plino <pedlino <at> gmail.com> writes:

> From my limited knowledge I would say the ODF add-in is still open source
> (but seems to be abandoned).
>
> http://odf-converter.sourceforge.net/
>
> In my opinion it would be strategic to TDF (in colaboration with OASIS) to
> revive this project.

Please no. We who have had to look at that codebase and even fix some problems
in it are glad that it is abandoned. It is a huge unmaintainable pile of XSLT,
and then some silly C# code around that.

(I don't mean C# is silly as such, I *like* C# very much in general, but the
odf-converter C# code is a bit silly. As to XSLT, I am not an expert, maybe if
one has the right tools it is maintainable, but I certainly don't have any such
tools.)

(And yeah, I know what mentioning C# will cause... To make the flames even
hotter, let me remind you that the odf-converter project was funded by
Microsoft.)

Furthermore, this allegedly Open Source project (hosted on soureforge) includes
(for the benefit of its use as a plug-in to MS Office; not relevant when used
from OOo) some binary bits with unclear (IANAL) redistribution license. Fun.

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