Oracle wants LibreOffice members to leave OOo council (ars technica) [LWN.net]

Oracle wants LibreOffice members to leave OOo council (ars technica)

Posted Oct 20, 2010 16:29 UTC (Wed) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)
In reply to: Oracle wants LibreOffice members to leave OOo council (ars technica) by AlexHudson
Parent article: Oracle wants LibreOffice members to leave OOo council (ars technica)

Users aren't interested in a tool that can read and write proper OOXML files. They are interested in a tool that can read and write Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files, which aren't the same thing, because Microsoft doesn't follow its own standard. That's doable, but it's a significantly harder job as it requires bug-compatibility.

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Oracle wants LibreOffice members to leave OOo council (ars technica)

Posted Oct 20, 2010 18:08 UTC (Wed) by AlexHudson (guest, #41828) [Link]

I'm not sure why you thought I was talking about writing to a spec., I didn't name either Ecma 376 or ISO 29500.

Of course it's a hard job, of course it requires bug-for-bug compatibility. But it absolutely has to be done, and anyone who argues that the various OOXML specs don't make it significantly easier than at any point in the past obviously haven't actually tried working with those types of documents.