Re: [tdf-discuss] ignore m$ legacy?

Mark Preston <mark -AT- mpreston.demon.co.uk>

Sat, 23 Jul 2011 16:39:35 +0100

Look, lets be honest about this - Microsoft has by far the largest proportion of legacy documents out there and there is no way that people can manage without access to those documents. Apart from anything else, the law will require them to be kept and available if needed for any future investigations. That leaves one and only one choice if some fool decided to remove interoperability, namely to build a mass-conversion tool that can convert all those legacy documents. And if we have to build a conversion tool anyway, then why not simply have it as a part of the standard services offered by the software. In short, the choice is offer interoperability or close down LibreOffice and give up. Let's not give up. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+help@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted

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