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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Nov 25 14:15:13 +0000 2008 ------- @fdservices: Excel is inconsistent in its treatment of text and numbers. I would classify that as being a bug, and we do not need to reproduce that in OO. Not quite. If you import Excel files, then Excel's behavior is the gold standard. It doesn't matter if Excel's behavior is logical, illogical, serpentine, obscure, or even outright bizarre. It doesn't matter if you think there's a bug in Excel - I might even agree with you on that, but it's plain irrelevant. If OO doesn't do the same thing, it is a bug in OO's Excel import filter. As this discussion shows, many people got burned by this bug already, so it's not just an academic discussion. I've been a software developer for 20 years, and I also run a business. One thing I have learned is that customers don't care about the perfect anything - they care that the job gets done. I've seen software developers get fired for implementing a technically elegant solution that didn't meet the customer's needs. Whether that matters really depends on your goal. From an academic standpoint, if you want to build the best possible spreadsheet as a research project, you may be absolutely right. If your goal is to provide an alternative to Microsoft Office - well, then arguing "I'm right and Microsoft is wrong" is not going to earn you much market share. It's more like a famous last word. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
