[odf-discuss] Linspire's MOOX initiatives

[Mirko Nasato]

Daniel Carrera wrote:
> 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?
http://odf-converter.sourceforge.net

It's both a plugin for Microsoft Office (that's why Microsoft are
declaring their support for it, so they can say they're offering some
form of ODF support), and plugin for OpenOffice.org (ported by Novell
and now probably Linspire). And a standalone converter.

Code-wise it's a .NET library, upon which all the above stuff is based.
License is BSD.

I don't see anything wrong with the project itself, quite the opposite.
Nor with the fact that they're not aiming at 100% compatibility: that
would be just utopia. I'm happy that Linspire is joining the effort.

Kind regards

Mirko