[odf-discuss] What is actually necessary and found only in OpenXML?

[Chris Puttick]

On 02/06/07, marbux <marbux at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Right now, less featureful apps can't interoperate with OOo.

Do you mean less featureful apps that do not understand ODF cannot
interoperate with OOo? Or do you mean the OOo does not understand ODF?

> Right now OOo can't interoperate with less featureful apps.

Are you saying that OOo cannot read properly formed ODF files?

>  Right now, ODF apps can't interoperate with MS Office.

Uh? No, MS Office does not interoperate with anything except MS Office
- as it was, so it will be. It is *not*, absolutely *not* the fault of
ODF or applications that understand it that MS Office does not
understand it. It is not the international open standard that should
be under pressure to change to enhance interoperability with MS
Office; the imperative is and must remain that MS Office must put the
work in to support the international standard.

>Right now, ODF, in the words of Sun and IBM's representative, "is
essentially worthless."

Pure and unadulterated rhetoric. While there are multiple applications
that can read and write ODF successfully, interoperability is proven.

Chris