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

[Thomas Zander]

On Friday 03 November 2006 10:56, Alex Hudson wrote:
> > 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.

AFAIK the MOOX patent covenant is only valid when the program implements 
the full spec, MS is able to stop the publishing of software that does 
not actually implement it completely.

-- 
Thomas Zander
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