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Taking Microsoft's ODF Plugin for a Spin... Splat (Groklaw)

Taking Microsoft's ODF Plugin for a Spin... Splat (Groklaw)

Posted Jul 21, 2006 6:05 UTC (Fri) by ekj (guest, #1524)
In reply to: Taking Microsoft's ODF Plugin for a Spin... Splat (Groklaw) by azhrei_fje
Parent article: Taking Microsoft's ODF Plugin for a Spin... Splat (Groklaw)

OOo did not, however, have access to a complete specification of the MS-Office file-format. Nor did they have access to complete source-code for multiple independent reference-implementations.

I agree, even *with* these things, document-formats are hard. But they're a lot easier with these things than they are by reverse engineering of a continuosly moving target.


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