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

[Thomas Zander]

On Friday 03 November 2006 13:26, Ian Lynch wrote:
> > The spec we are talking about is many thousands of pages long with
> > all the bugs that were made in Office being put into the spec as
> > well.
>
> Well that is also true for reverse engineering filters for OOo
> without the documentation as well as developing ODF and a whole host
> of other things in a lot less than 10 years so I can't see why it
> would take 10 years even with these other constraints.

Just FYI;
1) OOo is more then 10 years old (well, the codebase is, ~12 years)
2) OOo implements just a part of ODF [1] The ooMath part is said to be 
just implemented about 20% of the whole spec in OOo.
3) ODF is about 1/10th the size of MOOX.

Do the math :)

1) http://testsuite.opendocumentfellowship.org/summary.html
-- 
Thomas Zander
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