2008/6/22 marbux <>:
> 2. The longer we wait to do the app-neutrality work, the more locked
> in everyone gets to the StarOffice way of doing things. That deals
> just about everyone but the folks using the OOo code base out of the
> market. E.g., no way on God's Green Earth that Microsoft or Corel will
> be able to round-trip documents with OOo without data loss if OOo
> isn't rewritten. A spec has to be application-neutral before it can be
> implemented by other legacy apps in a round-trip way. .
KOffice 2.
- d.