Comments on: Promoting a Competitor to Openness, on Behalf of Your New Partner http://techrights.org/2007/03/06/novell-helps-ooxml/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Fri, 25 Nov 2016 09:41:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: Stephen http://techrights.org/2007/03/06/novell-helps-ooxml/comment-page-1/#comment-400 Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:56:25 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2007/03/06/novell-helps-ooxml/#comment-400 Umm, Openoffice already supports Microsoft formats (doc, xls and ppt). Who cares? Standards were already decentralised, all that’s true now is the Openoffice can at least work with “more” and the reality is there will be many MS Offices sold.

]]> By: Stephane Rodriguez http://techrights.org/2007/03/06/novell-helps-ooxml/comment-page-1/#comment-398 Tue, 06 Mar 2007 07:13:28 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2007/03/06/novell-helps-ooxml/#comment-398 A commenter said “it’s just as bad as the MCAN translator”.

No, it IS the MCAN translator. It is the CleverAge plugin, therefore all its weaknesses apply. (Word-only at the moment, subset of actual functionalities, lack of understanding of underlying semantics (due to Microsoft’s 15-year worth of binary secrecy, …)

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