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

Thomas Zander zander at kde.org
Sat Jun 2 11:00:13 EDT 2007


On Saturday 02 June 2007 14:13:02 marbux wrote:
> >It's really, really, really simple. Anything marked "MAY" does NOT need
> > to be implemented, under any circumstance. Any other understanding is
> > plainly wrong.
>
> True, but irrelevant. The issue is not implementation of a feature, but
> preservation of metadata needed by other apps. And the RFC 2119
> definition of "may" means that if it is required for interoperability,
> you have to preserve it. That's interoperability as in round-tripping.

That you want it to be true does not make it true. No matter how long you 
argue.
It is getting tiring to see you display FUD that puts down our main ODF 
implementation. Please be more constructive as you are destroying more 
then you apparently think.
-- 
Thomas Zander
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