Microsoft libero Office Open XML (también llamado OOXML u OpenXML) que
es un formato de archivo abierto estándar y su especificación esta
publicada. [1] como una alternativa a al formato ODF -el cual no han
querido adoptar segun afirman que no es posible traducir algunas
características de los formatos de MS Office a ODF.
PERO como sólo Microsoft conoce todas las características de MS Office,
es imposible determinar si es asi o no . De hecho , han habido muchas
criticas a MS-OOXML por desperfectos que tiene , en realidad ODF es
mucho mejor lo que no les da la gana usarlo. ;-)
Mas alla de eso y de la controversia..
En el sitio de LO [2] , la politica general es soportar todos los
formatos abiertos posibles y se explica claramente porque ODF
continuara siendo el formato de LO por defecto.
Aca dejo el articulo original en ingles para los que no puedan consultar
el enlace:
*- Does The Document Foundation support OOXML ?*
The Document Foundation promotes and supports Open Standards. Among them
OpenDocument Format (ODF), that offers many benefits to citizens,
governments and businesses, and sets the documents and users free from
proprietary lock-in.
The reason we enthusiastically promote ODF, is that we believe that no
other standard provides the right level of vendor neutrality with
widespread participation and implementation. We believe that ODF's
absence of lock-in future proofs investment in both documents and
software, to the great benefit of all citizens, governments and
businesses. The Document Foundation does not promote nor support OOXML.
*
- Why does LibreOffice offer to read, edit and save documents in OOXML? *
Just like OpenOffice.org, LibreOffice lets its users handle documents in
the format used by Microsoft Office 2007 and 2010. It is important to
understand that these formats, also called OOXML are in fact somewhat
different from the ISO standard bearing the same name; in fact it is
unclear whether anyone is able to implement the ISO standard.
To avoid confusion, we will refer to the Microsoft formats produced by
Microsoft Office as Microsoft Open XML (MOX) hereafter. To enable data
interchange, LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org before it, has traditionally
engaged with the reality of a world filled with data in many, less than
ideal formats. Our users are used to exchanging data bi-directionally
between many proprietary formats, and their Free Software equivalents.
Indeed there are few choices for a non-dominant player to deliberately
shun inter-operating, and remain relevant.
*
- Is there a difference in the way OpenOffice and LibreOffice each
support MOX ? *
Yes, there are two. OpenOffice.org offers the ability to read Microsoft
Office 2007 and 2010 documents, to access them, but not to save
documents in these formats. LibreOffice does offer the added ability to
save documents in these formats. However, OpenOffice.org does have the
same ability; but so far, it has been deactivated from the software. We
believe it is only a matter of time before such a feature gets reactivated.
The other difference is that LibreOffice embeds specific patches that
improve the filters for Microsoft Office 2007 and 2010. These patches
are easily identifiable in our code repository (see our technical FAQ)
and their author is Novell.
*
- Ah! So Novell is bringing in odd software bits from Microsoft to
betray Free Software! *
That's not really a question, but there are some things that are quite
clear to the Document Foundation:
Novell and the Document Foundation are not the same entities, nor does
Novell own the Document Foundation. Novell is one contributor, among
several others, to the Document Foundation.
The patches related to the Microsoft Office formats support coming from
Novell are the indirect result of a specific agreement between Novell
and Microsoft. We use the word "indirect" here, as the agreement covers
the software known as "OpenOffice Novell Edition", and that's not the
same as LibreOffice.
To the best of the knowledge of the Document Foundation, there is no
specific agreement between Novell and Microsoft about LibreOffice. (But
then again, we are not Novell nor do we represent the company in any way).
* - Don't you feel as if you are betraying Free and Open Source
Software, as well as Open Standards such as ODF? *
No. And if we felt that way, we would take immediate action to remove
the full stack. What we are offering our users is convenience; if we
didn't offer these features we would not be serving users and we would
get daily messages requesting the support of the new Microsoft Office
formats. Besides, the same reasoning applies to the old Microsoft Office
formats we support; and while it was thought for a while it was possible
to prevent people from using these formats or even buying Microsoft
Office, it turned out that it was not possible. We do believe, however,
that by offering a full-featured and innovative office suite that exists
among a rich and diverse ODF ecosystem, ODF shall prevail in the end.
*
- What about other proprietary standards ? *
Unfortunately, the world is not a perfect place, and as such user
demand, and compatibility lead us to support many formats with dubious
standards pedigree, or even no formal standard at all. One example is
PDF -- we ship by default with both export and import filters.
Similarly, we can export slideshows to SWF (Flash). We also support
various image formats of dubious repute exporting to: Windows Meta Files
(WMF), Extended Meta Files (EMF), and even the widely loathed GIF file
format. Clearly, none of these are recommended. We even have our own
non-standardised Star View Metafile format (SVM) supported. Likewise,
for documents we both export and import RTF files -- despite these being
the legacy of a previous document standards war, and clearly both export
and import the legacy Microsoft binary file formats DOC / XLS / PPT.
Finally, we import, export and execute Visual Basic for Applications
macros, despite widespread loathing of this language.
Unfortunately, remaining relevant in the office space, requires such
compromise -- yet, we remain committed to driving and recommending Open
Standards wherever possible.
*
- Can I disable MOX support inside LibreOffice ? *
You certainly are welcome to do so. First, MOX support can be
deactivated by tweaking LibreOffice's XML configuration Check out this
page and feel free to add to it. We encourage anyone to design an
extension so that MOX support can be deactivated easily in two clicks.
Second, since we don't actually promote these formats, we are making
very clear to our users that saving in these formats entails risks of
various nature and that it is not our preferred format. ODF is. Saving
in these formats will pop up the standard (localised) foreign format
dialog, that reads:
"This document may contain formatting or content that cannot be saved in
Office Open XML Text file format. Do you want to save the document in
this format anyway?" Use the latest ODF file format and be sure all
formatting and content is saved correctly.
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1 - http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML
2 - http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/LibreOffice_OOXML
El 24/03/11 12:20, Paradix ;) escribió:
a propósito de Libre Office, he visto mucha polémica al respecto,
algunos seguidores de OOo califican los de LO de seguir las pautas de
Red Hat y Novell, asi como de querer imponer el MS-OOXML en el
proyecto, que se han dedicado a difundir FUD en todos los escenarios,
que ha habido tergiversación en cuanto a las intenciones de Oracle se
refieren
¿que hay de cierto en esto?
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