Hi :) The situation is improving now that people are moving to ODF more and more. Relying on a single companies whims has of course left a lingering problem but ODF is defined by a large group of companies most of which produce software that is designed to read the formats.
So, if you stick with MS formats then you are still relying on a situation that hasn't changed in 30years. If you have moved to ODF then things are a lot more stable and reliable because there are a lot of products that can read ODF sucessfully. Regards from Tom :) >________________________________ > From: Mirosław Zalewski <mini...@poczta.onet.pl> >To: users@global.libreoffice.org >Sent: Tuesday, 12 February 2013, 12:49 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Bug 60390 - FILEOPEN: Cannot open particular >document > >On 12/02/2013 at 10:53, "e-letter" <inp...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> If LO, or any other odf-compliant software disappears, you can find >> another. > >Yeah, especially since LO default saving format incorporates number of non- >standard extensions that other ODF-compliant software will just ignore. > >Don't get me wrong - I appreciate many of these extensions, as they give me >ability to use great features not covered by ODF spec. > >But I am also worried by the fact, that over thirty years after introducing >first word processor software, we are still at a stage where documents can be >freely exchanged only by users of the same software in the same version. >-- >Best regards >Mirosław Zalewski > >-- >For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org >Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > > > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
