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Re: Great ida!
by Magnus Johansson on Wednesday 27/Aug/2003, @12:25

"The problem is for the other (growing) 1%, like me. It's a huge barrier to switching to some alternative OS like Linux without having compatability with existing documents, and being able to effectively communicate with others (which means, the ability to export MS Office docs is important too)"

I agree with pretty much everything you say, but IMHO the solution is not koffice swithing to the OO-format, but rather work on the import/export filters.

I don't think it's wrong if they base the koffice format upon the OO one, but if they restrict themselves from extending and/or modifying it to suit their needs, they're making a mistake IMO.

(Disclaimer: I haven't looked at either file format, but AFAIK they're both based on XML. I have, however, done similar work in another application domain.)

/Magnus

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Re: Great ida!
by Peter Simonsson on Wednesday 27/Aug/2003, @15:01

David Faure is a member of the OASIS group that works on the standard, so I'm pretty sure he will cater for koffice's needs. :)

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Re: Great ida!
by Nicolas Goutte on Wednesday 27/Aug/2003, @15:05

Nobody has said that there will be no private extensions ot the OO format (OASIS being a public extension compared to OO version 1.0) But I think that we need long before we even get to that border.

As for working on import/export filters, sorry, but when there is not any programmer, you cannot do much. (Volunteers, email to koffice@kde.org please.)

Have a nice day!

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