Re: [Libreoffice] MSO binary formats

2011-04-21 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
I totally understand. TBH im totally looking forward to this improvement. Hopefully this summer i can get my hands dirty with LO and the GSoC android task at least helping with that. On 21/04/2011 19:39, Kohei Yoshida wrote: On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 19:10 +0200, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: Kohei th

Re: [Libreoffice] MSO binary formats

2011-04-21 Thread Kohei Yoshida
On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 19:10 +0200, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: > Kohei that wasnt my intention my apologies. That's OK. Sorry if I over-reacted. But I hope people who aren't versed in this sort of stuff understand that improving interop with other office suites is not just a matter of understanding

Re: [Libreoffice] MSO binary formats

2011-04-21 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
Kohei that wasnt my intention my apologies. I appreciate all the work you guys do and knowing this is in the works gives me great joy and excitement to soon be able to recommend this great piece of software. If i could and had more time and programming know how i would gladly chip in but at th

Re: [Libreoffice] MSO binary formats

2011-04-21 Thread Kohei Yoshida
On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 19:03 +0200, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: > Kohei > > This I think is what keeps alot of people away from open source. That > has what has kept me off OOO and LO, This is something that should > really be worked on, and something that would really give a boost to LO > in the l

Re: [Libreoffice] MSO binary formats

2011-04-21 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
Kohei This I think is what keeps alot of people away from open source. That has what has kept me off OOO and LO, This is something that should really be worked on, and something that would really give a boost to LO in the long term, as it was never something that OOo addressed. On 21/04/2011

Re: [Libreoffice] MSO binary formats

2011-04-21 Thread Andy Brown
Kohei Yoshida wrote: On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 09:33 -0700, Andy Brown wrote: Found an interesting link in users mailing list. Doing some research I came across [1]. Yes. It's been there for at least several years. This is old news, in fact. At first glance this would seem to permit anyone

Re: [Libreoffice] MSO binary formats

2011-04-21 Thread Kohei Yoshida
On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 09:33 -0700, Andy Brown wrote: > Found an interesting link in users mailing list. Doing some research I > came across [1]. Yes. It's been there for at least several years. This is old news, in fact. > At first glance this would seem to permit anyone to > use the Micro

[Libreoffice] MSO binary formats

2011-04-21 Thread Andy Brown
Found an interesting link in users mailing list. Doing some research I came across [1]. At first glance this would seem to permit anyone to use the Microsoft binary formats without any problem. For any legal types, is this in fact true? If so to the developers how much work would be invol