[odf-discuss] Microsoft and Novell cooperate on document formats

[Alex Hudson]

marbux wrote:
> I think we're drifting. The discussion started with Marco saying:
>
> "If the OO.o shipped with SUSE (and that only) got plugins that render
> MSO files (complex ones, with macros etc..) correctly, it would be for
> many users a powerful reason not to bother with ODF."
>
> I understood "correctly" in the context of "complex" documents as
> meaning full support. (Of course there's the added problem of more and
> more MS Office bugs being exposed as document compexity increases.)

I don't think complex == full support; after all, no application fully
supports OpenDocument yet either, and I don't think we'll see one for a
little while yet.

Novell already have an OOo which opens most proprietary spreadsheet
data, including formulas and macros, and it seems to be vastly good
enough for most people. That's the level they need to achieve, not
perfection.

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