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

Please make a new topic, don't spoil this thread 

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> From: NoOp [mailto:glgxg@sbcglobal.net] 
> Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 1:42 AM
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> Subject: [tdf-discuss] Re: OpenOffice dead and burried?
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> On 05/19/2011 11:03 AM, Andras Timar wrote:
> > 2011/5/19 plino <pedlino@gmail.com>:
> > > Then I think it's time to create a proper C/C++ ODF importer for 
> > > Word. If this worked properly then this would be a further step in 
> > > promoting ODF as a "de facto" open format alternative.
> >
> > ODF support is present in MS Office 2007 SP2 and MS Office 2010 (it 
> > even can be selected as default file format) so what would be your 
> > target? MS Office 2003 and older? It does not look 
> reasonable to me, 
> > because by the time we develop something useable, only a 
> minority of 
> > users will use such old versions of MS Office.
>
> I think you should keep in mind that many users of LO are 
> folks that simply can't, or won't spend the money to buy 
> Office 2007 (and hence also need to spend even more money to 
> upgrade their systems in order to use it).
>
> There are *millions* of users that are still using WinXP and 
> older versions of MS Office (think schools, libraries, 
> individuals, small companies, government offices, etc). 
> Granted the ideal situation would be to have all of them 
> install LO, but we know: 1) that just isn't going to happen, 
> 2) and even if they do install LO, they are not going to 
> purge their existing versions of MS Office... it just doesn't 
> work that way.
>
> An ODF plugin (like the Sun ODF Plugin) could go a long way 
> in gaining trust for existing MS Office users, particularly 
> if it does an LO splashscreen when starting as the Sun one 
> does. However, I also imagine that 
> creating/converting/maintaining such a program would be a 
> huge amount of effort/work. So I doubt that it will happen on 
> LO's watch & think it possible only with the backing of a 
> major ($$$) corporation such as IBM or similar.
>
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