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