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

Disagree.

If we dont support ms file formats, the users will keep bying ms office. If
we support ms formats users who are willing to shift will be abole to shift.

Today one of the most important stopperts is problems with legacy documents
and exchange of documents with external parties.

First we must teach users that non-editable docs should be exchqnged as pdf.
But it will take time.

By supporting ms files er will encourage users to Use odf.

Please note that im not saying anythng about OOXML but only about the
document formats that actually exits out there: docx, xlsx, pptx etc.

I agree with anyone saying er should not support ooxml. Never.

Cheers all
Leif
The Danish team

Den 28/07/2011 22.40 skrev "Jomar Silva" <homembit@gmail.com>:
> I'm following this thread since the last week and I believe that this
> is an extremely important discussion for us all.
>
> I support the initial idea of concentrating our work force on better
> ODF support and functionality improvements in LO, but I also
> understand the need that people have to use LO to manipulate MSO
> documents.
>
> To be honest, the far we keep 'good' MSO support on LO, the more we
> are contributing to maintain the status quo of MS formats, so I'm not
> proposing to stop it right now, but to start thinking about a date to
> do so (i.e. we'll keep the support until the end of 2012, and after
> that, we will not maintain that development... what's done is done,
> but we'll not put efforts on improving it after that date).
>
> This proposal is almost aligned with what Microsoft did with their ODF
> implementation (the "Implementation Notes" that Dennis is always
> talking about, where they simply stated "we will not support that" and
> period), and also aligned with the way we do things at standards
> development (we mark something as deprecated on one version, keep that
> as deprecated on the next one and on a version later on, when almost
> nobody is using that feature, we simply remove that from the spec).
>
> In summary: It's good to users that we support MSO files, but the real
> world side effect of that is that people will keep using MSO files...
> it's up to us to find a way to change the Status Quo in a smooth way
> :)
>
> My 2 cents,
>
> Jomar
>
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