22 Oct
2007
22 Oct
'07
9:43 p.m.
On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 21:14 +0100, samwise wrote:
Given this was the only MS Office plugin that was claimed would eventually provide a 100% perfect 'round trip' conversion fidelity, this sounds like a blow for ODF interoperability with MS Office and I think we're going to have to continue along in the era of document conversions mostly working, except for those tricky bits (i.e. anything involving tables or diagrams!).
It is worse than that, if and when docx becomes the default (or more specifically when people stop bothering to set Office 12 to save as the "legacy" format of .doc) then, if I understand the licensing MS has encumbered the new format with then it will actually be illegal for any Free software to open or change these files.