Re: [dev] Does MS Office Binary File Formats Spec. help improve the binary filter?

2010-07-12 Thread Tor Lillqvist
> What I was trying to say is that I recall something very similar to this > happening a while back and the company cried foul when the open source > software used their proprietory code and used it as an excuse to lambast > open source in general. So basically, just hearsay? --tml ---

Re: [dev] Does MS Office Binary File Formats Spec. help improve the binary filter?

2010-07-12 Thread Gregory Fenton
Sorry for my earlier email being incomplete, I was typing on my phone and it sent because of an errant finger. What I was trying to say is that I recall something very similar to this happening a while back and the company cried foul when the open source software used their proprietory code and us

Re: [dev] Does MS Office Binary File Formats Spec. help improve the binary filter?

2010-07-12 Thread Gregory Fenton
including code from them means they can cry foul with regard to their intellectual property.I am not On 12 Jul 2010 12:58, "Samphan Raruenrom" wrote: > MS Office binary formats are no longer a secret after MS release the spec > http://www.microsoft.com/interop/docs/OfficeBinaryFormats.mspx > in F

[dev] Does MS Office Binary File Formats Spec. help improve the binary filter?

2010-07-12 Thread Samphan Raruenrom
MS Office binary formats are no longer a secret after MS release the spec http://www.microsoft.com/interop/docs/OfficeBinaryFormats.mspx in Feb 2008. Does this help improve the quality of the MS Office binary filters in OpenOffice.org in any way? Since we no longer need to rely on reverse engine