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

Guys... is there even a point discussing this more?

The summary is:
a) Allowing LO to handle M$ formats won't help people really break free
from the M$ stranglehold and will hurt ODF
b) Not supporting M$ formats means a serious hurt in the adoption of LO,
or anything that is not M$

Now, we can add some salad dressing on these, but that's the bottom line.

Personally, I think that I'm seeing a Don Quichote thing going on...

Why can't LO be a killer office that can handle _every document_ under
the sun? That's VLC reputation in the multimedia field, and that works
very very fine for them I think :)

As for the spreading of ODF, I suggest to pick a different battle: the
one where the governments make it the default format for all their
forms. Now _that_ would change things.

Marc-André Laverdière
Software Security Scientist
Innovation Labs, Tata Consultancy Services
Hyderabad, India

On 07/31/2011 01:31 PM, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
> On 28/07/2011 21:54, Olivier Hallot wrote:
> > I would prefer that LO import MSO format flawlessly but not export
> > them at
> > all...
> IMHO that's a very shortsighted view. One of the main advantages (in my
> experience) is the ability of LO to export direct to email in MSO format.
> Consider the following scenario.
> A user uses MSO 2007 or 2010 and they use the OOXML format by default or
> by choice. If they then send a document to someone else that only uses
> MSO 2003 or earlier, and the sender is not certain whether the recipient
> has the Compatibility pack installed, they have to save their document
> as a 97-2003 version and thus rapidly build up duplicated documents on
> their machine in both OOXML format and 97-2003 format.
>
> Now consider the LO user. Creates and saves documents in ODF format -
> sends to an MSO user just by doing the Send As .Doc format. No
> duplication of documents at all.
> A really great feature, and one that assumes MSO document type support.
> IMHO, a necessity in the current climate (particularly looking at the
> growing practice of computer Vendors installing a trial version of
> Office 2010 which reverts to a Starter edition if not purchased. That's
> the danger as far as I can see....)

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