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while this feature makes LibreOffice gather more users, in the long term this strategy IMHO will not pay off. "Microsoft formats" is moving target and playing "
by hippich 12y ago
while this feature makes LibreOffice gather more users, in the long term this strategy IMHO will not pay off. "Microsoft formats" is moving target and playing "catch up with microsoft" game all the time - wasting resources which otherwise could be poured into making product itself nicer, which in turn will convince users to switch based on features, not just on the fact, that it is free. I hope my idea make sense :)
I guess balance between two is necessary. You can't totally ignore MS formats, but focusing only on it - will stale this project.
- frozenport 12y agoIts not a moving target because old versions of office must open documents from new versions.
- Karunamon 12y agoI've still got Word '97 documents where Writer frags the table formatting...
- grandinj 12y agoIf you have one that is not private, please log a big along with the document and some sample screenshots of the correct and incorrect displays. Bugs like that tend to get our attention because they're easier to fix :)
- Karunamon 12y agoI'd really love to, but in both cases where this has happened, the documents are very very private :(
- hackbinary 12y agoPerhaps you could anonymize the data?
- yuhong 12y agoOr send it in private email.