Re: [tdf-discuss] Support for Office 2003 file formats (WordML, SpreadsheetML

2011-03-26 Thread Jaime R. Garza
Hi Peter, I don't really understand the logic behind your suggestion. You want LO to drop support for the defacto-standard file format??? I don't really see any good reason for doing such a completely strategically wrong decision. Cheers! Jaime On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 16:36, Peter Jentsch

Re: [tdf-discuss] Support for Office 2003 file formats (WordML, SpreadsheetML

2011-03-26 Thread Carl Symons
On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Jaime R. Garza gar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Peter, I don't really understand the logic behind your suggestion. You want LO to drop support for the defacto-standard file format??? I don't really see any good reason for doing such a completely strategically

Re: [tdf-discuss] Support for Office 2003 file formats (WordML, SpreadsheetML

2011-03-26 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
On 3/26/11 5:30 PM, Carl Symons wrote: On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Jaime R. Garzagar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Peter, I don't really understand the logic behind your suggestion. You want LO to drop support for the defacto-standard file format??? I don't really see any good reason for

Re: [tdf-discuss] Support for Office 2003 file formats (WordML, SpreadsheetML

2011-03-26 Thread Italo Vignoli
On 3/26/11 5:30 PM, Carl Symons wrote: Although MS stopped free support for MS Office 2003 some time ago, its use is still widespread. It would be a mistake for LibO to support the ill-defined, shifting OOXML and deprecate MS 2003 support. I might be wrong, but Peter was referring to MS

Re: [tdf-discuss] Support for Office 2003 file formats (WordML, SpreadsheetML

2011-03-26 Thread upscope
snip On Saturday, March 26, 2011 09:30:31 AM Carl Symons wrote: On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Jaime R. Garza gar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Peter, I don't really understand the logic behind your suggestion. You want LO to drop support for the defacto-standard file format??? I

Re: [tdf-discuss] Support for Office 2003 file formats (WordML, SpreadsheetML

2011-03-26 Thread Ercole Carpanetto
On 26 March 2011 16:36, Peter Jentsch pj...@guineapics.de wrote: IMHO I don't think drop office 2003 format is a good idea: a lot of people around still use it. And while you can install the compatibility pack, as you say on your PC, is not possible to force others to install a program, so it can