[odf-discuss] Linspire's MOOX initiatives

[marbux]

I'd love to argue with you if I had the time, Daniel, but I don't. I'm too
busy working on making interoperability actually happen.



On 7/11/07, Daniel Carrera <daniel.carrera at zmsl.com> 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? 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.
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