[odf-discuss] Linspire's MOOX initiatives

[Daniel Carrera]

marbux wrote:
> It's the Novell OOXML plug-in for OOo developed in cooperation with 
> Clever Age-Microsoft... Microsoft
> deliberately chose an external process rather than using its native file 
> support APIs,

How do you suppose Microsoft could use their native APIs to make a 
plugin for OOo? Incidentally, I don't think that using a stand-alone 
program instead of tying it to MS Office constitutes "broken by design". 
A stand-alone program has the benefit that it can be used outside MS 
Office. For example, you can make an OOo plugin, or you configure our 
mail server to convert all out-going or in-coming documents to ODF, or 
you can create a Samba plugin that automatically saves everything to 
ODF. None of those uses would be possible if the converter required 
internal APIs.

Daniel.