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in another news, Open XML is an ISO standard
by mimoune djouallah on Tuesday 01/Apr/2008, @02:25

at first glimpse, i thought that kde is becoming more pragmatic and accepted the obvious, whether we like it or not, open xml is here to stay, no need to say that Microsoft has a near monopoly in office marketplace. i am just wondering how much time will take before we have a working support for open xml in koffice.

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Re: in another news, Open XML is an ISO standard
by JohnFlux on Tuesday 01/Apr/2008, @02:45

> i am just wondering how much time will take before we have a working support for open xml in koffice.

Well if you start now, and implement a whole page of the spec every day, you should be finished by 2024 (6000+ pages divided by 365 days in a year).

Good luck with that :)

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Re: in another news, Open XML is an ISO standard
by Boudewijn Rempt on Tuesday 01/Apr/2008, @03:01

Probably 2048 -- you'd have to implement it twice: once the spec and once the variant Microsoft uses themselves but haven't documented.

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Re: in another news, Open XML is an ISO standard
by Martin Lang on Tuesday 01/Apr/2008, @04:56

Considering that GNOME and OOo already have functional OOXML support, does this mean that the KDE developers are incompetent compared to the GNOME and OOo developers that it would take KDE developers so long to implement?

Somehow I doubt you are correct in your estimation of how long it would take.

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Re: in another news, Open XML is an ISO standard
by Anon on Tuesday 01/Apr/2008, @05:17

Incompetent? Hardly. Underfunded? Definitely.

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Re: in another news, Open XML is an ISO standard
by Cyrille Berger on Tuesday 01/Apr/2008, @08:38

Please define what you call functionnal. And which spec have they implemented ? OOXML from MSO, ECMA OOXML or ISO OOXML ? All of them having differences and some incompatibilities.

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Re: in another news, Open XML is an ISO standard
by Anonymous on Tuesday 01/Apr/2008, @10:00

Why can't we just take their code and just modify it. That's the spirit of FOSS. No need to reimplement everything.

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Re: in another news, Open XML is an ISO standard
by Frank on Saturday 05/Apr/2008, @00:16

I doubt you ever looked at OOo code, or ever actually tried to reuse a non-trivial amount of code that wasn't explicitely designed for that. I don't know about OOXML, but the filters for .xls and older word formats in OOo are known to be of unmaintainable code quality and complexity, not separated from the rest of OOo and often not even documented in English (but in German).

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