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I was one of the first people to reverse-engineer the binary Word file format and was one of the early contributors to POI.I've spent a career writing code agai
by ryanackley 16y ago
I was one of the first people to reverse-engineer the binary Word file format and was one of the early contributors to POI.I've spent a career writing code against various file formats.
Unfortunately, most of the comments here are not based on first-hand technical knowledge. How many of you have tried to code against the OOXML spec? I have. It's pretty good.
Most people in the community of "people actually doing stuff in this area", which Miguel is a part of, feel like Microsoft is acting in good faith. See http://www.opensource.org/node/351 http://www.opensource.org/node/351.