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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Oct 4 08:10:16 +0000 2008 ------- I have to chime in with those who argue that this issue almost cost me serious money. A proposal from one of my vendors showed costs that were off by hundreds of dollars per month; my customer would have sued me had I not caught this in time. When loading an XLS spreadsheet, it is absolutely imperative that the results are the same as they were in Excel. That should override any philosophical considerations on what the "right" treatment is - when you are competing with Excel and advertising compatibility, then "right" is what Excel does. Anything else may be appropriate for an ivory tower - but not for the real world of business. As a consultant, I used to tell my customers to replace Microsoft Office with OpenOffice. But until this issue is fixed, I cannot do that any more. And the fact that, as I now see, this discussion has been dragging on for six years does not help to build trust in OpenOffice. How many other such issues are there lurking, and will they also take more than half a decade of discussion without a solution? --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
