By: Olav Dahlum
Most of what you write doesn’t make any sense, but I will take it apart anyway. Document model? It’s all the proprietary components they put into their products which makes documents dependent on...
View ArticleBy: Olav Dahlum
Again, what’s the point with bringing up proprietary document formats under active development? They can’t be successfully reverse engineered until they die out. SoftMaker Office is proprietary, so...
View ArticleBy: Dark Phoenix
“LibreOffice had to leave our small business last month because of incompatibilities with itself.” I’m sorry, but the irony is stunning. You’re complaining about this in LO, despite the fact that it’s...
View ArticleBy: Andreas Säger
Well, being a member of the LibO’s “QA” team (aka fan boys) it is not a big surprise that you don’t know what a document model is. It is the abstract representation of each and every document you throw...
View ArticleBy: Andreas Säger
I do not complain and I did not use MS Office since 2000 for the reasons you mentioned. I can switch to another product which supports the same file format. This is the point of free file formats.
View ArticleBy: Chris
The sad fact is as much as Libre Office believes that they are as good or better than MS Office, they are just wrong. There is still little or no innovation in the UI, many of the Libre Office products...
View ArticleBy: Jad
Correction, I believe you got that a little wrong: The sad fact is as much as MS Office believes that they are as good or better than Libre Office, they are just wrong. There is still little or no...
View ArticleBy: paul2012
I guess Freiburg can go ahead with locked-in monopolistic software, spending more money than needed and Germany can possibly be the new Greece. I feel Freiburg has forgotten the hyperinflation in the...
View ArticleBy: Alex
AFAIK there’s no proof that Softmaker ever did an agreement with Microsoft, so don’t try to make conspiracies. ODF is a lost cause because Open XML is the defacto standard and you need almost perfect...
View ArticleBy: A Response to The Document Foundation’s Open Letter to the City of...
[…] year, I posted the following comment on a blog post from The Document Foundation. I post it here again, as I realize that I had neatly summed up my position in this small piece. I […]
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