[ILUG] Disappointment with OpenOffice

[Paul Jakma]

Hi,

On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Gareth Eason wrote:

> on Windows - and they're both from the same company with full 
> access to the file format specifications!!!)

Who says MS have access to the file format specifications? For that 
to be true, specifications would actually need to exist. I have a dim 
memory of Caolan McNamara telling on this list that when he tried to 
get specs out of MS, beyond the limited info MS had on technet, that 
MS didnt have any. Indeed didnt MS eventually take (with his 
permission) the notes and specifications Caolan had built-up in 
reverse engineering their formats to write Wv (the library which OO 
uses) and publish those as specifications for their own formats! (is 
my very dim and probably quite inaccurate memory).

Ie the best docs on MS's formats are those created due to open-source 
(Caolan)!

regards,
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