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Re: LibreOffice 3.6.0: A Look at What's Coming

From Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject Re: LibreOffice 3.6.0: A Look at What's Coming
Date 2012-06-16 10:02 -0700
Message-ID <CC020A4F.3655%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> (permalink)
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On 6/16/12 9:35 AM, in article jricjn$9gg$1@dont-email.me, "Chris Ahlstrom"
<ahlstromc@xzoozy.com> wrote:

> After swilling some grog, 7 belched this bit o' wisdom:
> 
>> Snit wrote:
>>> On 6/15/12 6:36 PM, in article kqRCr.124053$4v3.55589@fx08.am4, "7"
>>> 
>>>> Nope - not even Micro Soft (a company with a soft small tallywhacker TM)
>>>> has going much for it. Format switcheroo to milk money out of
>>>> unsuspecting users also breaks compatibility with everything that got
>>>> written for .doc.
>>> 
>>> One: this is a lie.
>> 
>> Nope - you are a hallucinating. Most micoshfat products and world+dog
>> has no support for patent encumbered formats.
>> 
>>> Two: part of the reason they moved to DOCX was to move to an open format,
>>>      what your herd wanted them to do.  You should be celebrating.
> 
> Heh.  If DOCX were really open, LibreOffice -- nay! OpenOffice! --
> would have had it working nearly perfectly by now.

So you say with no support.

> The fact is that DOCX has so many traps in it -- tables, nested tables,
> arbitrary reference objects (pretty much any style can be used
> to create a "Table of XXXX", if I understand it correctly) -- that
> it might as well be completely undocumented.

"might as well"... but it is not.
 
> And who know if the existing documentation is even *accurate*?
> Or *complete*?

How do you know it is not?  How do you know ODF is?
 
...


-- 
The indisputable facts about that absurd debate: <http://goo.gl/2337P>
cc being proved wrong about his stats BS: <http://goo.gl/1aYrP>
7 simple questions cc will *never* answer: <http://goo.gl/cNBzu>
cc again pretends to be knowledgeable about things he is clueless about.

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LibreOffice 3.6.0: A Look at What's Coming Marti Van Lin <martivanlin@gmail.com> - 2012-06-16 03:10 +0200
  Re: LibreOffice 3.6.0: A Look at What's Coming Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2012-06-15 18:28 -0700
    Re: LibreOffice 3.6.0: A Look at What's Coming 7 <email_at_www_at_enemygadgets_dot_com@enemygadgets.com> - 2012-06-16 02:36 +0100
      Re: LibreOffice 3.6.0: A Look at What's Coming Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2012-06-15 18:43 -0700
        Re: LibreOffice 3.6.0: A Look at What's Coming Tattoo Vampire <sitting@this.computer> - 2012-06-16 01:26 -0400
          Re: LibreOffice 3.6.0: A Look at What's Coming Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2012-06-15 23:12 -0700
            Re: LibreOffice 3.6.0: A Look at What's Coming Tattoo Vampire <sitting@this.computer> - 2012-06-16 08:12 -0400
              Re: LibreOffice 3.6.0: A Look at What's Coming "Clogwog" <clogwog@anon.eu> - 2012-06-16 17:11 +0200
                Re: LibreOffice 3.6.0: A Look at What's Coming Marti Van Lin <martivanlin@gmail.com> - 2012-06-16 18:17 +0200
                Re: LibreOffice 3.6.0: A Look at What's Coming "Clogwog" <clogwog@anon.eu> - 2012-06-16 21:10 +0200
                Re: LibreOffice 3.6.0: A Look at What's Coming Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2012-06-16 10:07 -0700
                Re: LibreOffice 3.6.0: A Look at What's Coming Hadron<hadronquark@gmail.com> - 2012-06-16 19:37 +0200
              Re: LibreOffice 3.6.0: A Look at What's Coming Hadron<hadronquark@gmail.com> - 2012-06-16 17:35 +0200
                Re: LibreOffice 3.6.0: A Look at What's Coming Marti Van Lin <martivanlin@gmail.com> - 2012-06-16 18:33 +0200
                Re: LibreOffice 3.6.0: A Look at What's Coming Chris Ahlstrom <ahlstromc@xzoozy.com> - 2012-06-16 12:40 -0400
                Re: LibreOffice 3.6.0: A Look at What's Coming Chris Ahlstrom <ahlstromc@xzoozy.com> - 2012-06-16 12:57 -0400
                Re: LibreOffice 3.6.0: A Look at What's Coming Chris Ahlstrom <ahlstromc@xzoozy.com> - 2012-06-16 13:00 -0400
                Re: LibreOffice 3.6.0: A Look at What's Coming Hadron<hadronquark@gmail.com> - 2012-06-16 18:44 +0200
                Re: LibreOffice 3.6.0: A Look at What's Coming Marti Van Lin <martivanlin@gmail.com> - 2012-06-16 19:34 +0200
                Re: LibreOffice 3.6.0: A Look at What's Coming Foster <frankfoster50@yahoo.com> - 2012-06-16 13:38 -0400
                Re: LibreOffice 3.6.0: A Look at What's Coming "Clogwog" <clogwog@anon.eu> - 2012-06-16 21:21 +0200
                Re: LibreOffice 3.6.0: A Look at What's Coming Chris Ahlstrom <ahlstromc@xzoozy.com> - 2012-06-16 14:00 -0400
                Re: LibreOffice 3.6.0: A Look at What's Coming Foster <frankfoster50@yahoo.com> - 2012-06-16 14:11 -0400
                Re: LibreOffice 3.6.0: A Look at What's Coming Hadron<hadronquark@gmail.com> - 2012-06-16 21:45 +0200
                Re: LibreOffice 3.6.0: A Look at What's Coming Marti Van Lin <ml2mst@dontevenbother.invalid> - 2012-06-17 04:03 +0200
              Re: LibreOffice 3.6.0: A Look at What's Coming Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2012-06-16 10:07 -0700
        Re: LibreOffice 3.6.0: A Look at What's Coming 7 <email_at_www_at_enemygadgets_dot_com@enemygadgets.com> - 2012-06-16 17:06 +0100
          Re: LibreOffice 3.6.0: A Look at What's Coming Chris Ahlstrom <ahlstromc@xzoozy.com> - 2012-06-16 12:35 -0400
            Re: LibreOffice 3.6.0: A Look at What's Coming Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2012-06-16 10:02 -0700
          Re: LibreOffice 3.6.0: A Look at What's Coming Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2012-06-16 10:06 -0700
          Re: LibreOffice 3.6.0: A Look at What's Coming DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2012-06-17 12:25 -0400
            Re: LibreOffice 3.6.0: A Look at What's Coming TomB <tommy.bongaerts@gmail.com> - 2012-06-17 19:20 +0000
              Re: LibreOffice 3.6.0: A Look at What's Coming Chris Ahlstrom <ahlstromc@xzoozy.com> - 2012-06-17 18:36 -0400
              Re: LibreOffice 3.6.0: A Look at What's Coming Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2012-06-17 15:37 -0700
              Re: LibreOffice 3.6.0: A Look at What's Coming DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2012-06-17 23:52 -0400
              Re: LibreOffice 3.6.0: A Look at What's Coming Hadron<hadronquark@gmail.com> - 2012-06-18 11:37 +0200
                Re: LibreOffice 3.6.0: A Look at What's Coming DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2012-06-18 09:17 -0400
      Re: LibreOffice 3.6.0: A Look at What's Coming Chris Ahlstrom <ahlstromc@xzoozy.com> - 2012-06-16 07:16 -0400
        Re: LibreOffice 3.6.0: A Look at What's Coming 7 <email_at_www_at_enemygadgets_dot_com@enemygadgets.com> - 2012-06-16 12:33 +0100
          Re: LibreOffice 3.6.0: A Look at What's Coming Chris Ahlstrom <ahlstromc@xzoozy.com> - 2012-06-16 12:10 -0400
        Re: LibreOffice 3.6.0: A Look at What's Coming Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2012-06-16 10:28 -0700
        Re: LibreOffice 3.6.0: A Look at What's Coming DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2012-06-18 00:37 -0400
          Re: LibreOffice 3.6.0: A Look at What's Coming Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2012-06-17 22:54 -0700
          Re: LibreOffice 3.6.0: A Look at What's Coming Kari Laine <karitlaine@yahoo.com> - 2012-06-18 17:18 +0300
            Re: LibreOffice 3.6.0: A Look at What's Coming DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2012-06-18 11:00 -0400
            Re: LibreOffice 3.6.0: A Look at What's Coming GreyCloud <mist@cumulus.com> - 2012-06-18 13:11 -0600
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                Re: LibreOffice 3.6.0: A Look at What's Coming GreyCloud <mist@cumulus.com> - 2012-06-18 16:15 -0600
                Re: LibreOffice 3.6.0: A Look at What's Coming Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2012-06-19 01:23 +0200
    Re: LibreOffice 3.6.0: A Look at What's Coming Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2012-06-15 18:54 -0700
      Re: LibreOffice 3.6.0: A Look at What's Coming Chris Ahlstrom <ahlstromc@xzoozy.com> - 2012-06-16 07:20 -0400
        Re: LibreOffice 3.6.0: A Look at What's Coming Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2012-06-16 10:27 -0700
  Re: LibreOffice 3.6.0: A Look at What's Coming Chris Ahlstrom <ahlstromc@xzoozy.com> - 2012-06-16 07:12 -0400

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