[odf-discuss] Mass may endorse OXML.

marbux marbux at gmail.com
Wed Jul 4 09:51:33 EDT 2007


On 7/4/07, Thomas Zander <zander at kde.org> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 04 July 2007 14:32:46 marbux wrote:
> > But it fell apart when the big ODF vendors that had been asked by
> > Massachusetts to fund the Foundation's development of its plug-in
> > declined to do so and Sun refused to modify StarOffice/OpenOffice.org
> > so they woud preserve foreign elements and attributes instead of
> > destroying them. . (The Foundation's proposal was the only one that
> > would have added native ODF support to MS Office or be able to deliver
> > high fidelity.)
>
> Its open source; instead of waiting for others to do it (and blaming
> developers that don't think it can be done), try to prove them wrong by
> doing it yourself or hiring someone to do it.


It's already been done in MS Office. And the public proof of concept Acme
376 plug-in is available for download by anyone.

At least, stop whining on this list about it.
>

Nope. Set your spam filter if you don't want to read what I have to say.
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