Comments on: OpenOffice.org Down by Demand, Use This Mirror Instead (Updated)

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 08:11:57 +0000

For all I know and based on what I hear, Office 2009 will diverge further away from this scarecrow called “OOXML”. To Microsoft, this whole OOXML thing enables to break compatibility with a lot of rival software which managed to reverse-engineer the binaries quite decently. They get to: 1) break compatibility; 2) call those ad-hoc formats “an open standard.” It’s truly an abomination.

By: Needs Sunlight

Needs Sunlight — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 07:59:27 +0000

@zoobab: No office package to-date, not even MS Office, uses OOXML. OOXML is not even published yet, though publishing was supposed to be a pre-requisite.

OOo can read MS Office 2007 Format files, what that format is called, who knows.

More importantly, OOo can now work with ODF 1.2.

By: Slashdot User

Slashdot User — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 01:43:41 +0000

Looks like your shill pal is back to gaming Slashdot:

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=994143&cid=25363873

I’ll say it again: With friends like these…

By: zoobab

zoobab — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:03:40 +0000

Patented OOXML shit in there?

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:28:00 +0000

I’ve just added it, but I’ll probably do a more detailed post later.

By: Needs Sunlight

Needs Sunlight — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:18:05 +0000

The linuxormat.co.uk review is rather weak. Maybe they’re not used to doing reviews.

Tectonic has a very detailed overview:
http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=2587

Maybe swap that one for the co.uk one.

There are some really nice new features, especially some of the split screen / multi-page options. A long awaited native OS X port is big news.