The filter indeed mainly covers StarOffice & OpenOffice 1.x formats. apt-cache
show says:
- the old StarOffice 5.2 formats
- StarWriter 1.0/2.0
- StarWriter/DOS
- *Writer* filters for
+ Excel
+ Lotus
I guess this will depend on how far you want to go back with supporting
people. Ubuntu releases 2 times a year, so that would mean 6 releases
ago is only about 3 years ago. I'd say you'd want to go back at least
5-8 years considering the fact that still much software form that time
is very popular.
The current situation seems to be that most people running recent
versions of Ubuntu still have a large archive of files in the older
formats. Those files cannot be easily converted all at once, since they
are stored in multiple places. When someone tries to open such a file
now, the error message won't make any sense. A regular user might be
worried about their document.
Thus the choice needs to be made whether Ubuntu only supports ODF and considers
the rest already obsolete. In this case OpenOffice.org should present a message
the system administrator needs to install extra software to let the document be
read.
The alternative would be to include this package by default.
The decision would have to be made based on how many years Ubuntu wants
to go back with support.
I guess in a few months it will be less important for me. I'm a student
and according to the legislation here all educational institutes will
have to have full support for ODF. Unfortunately though as for now, I
still receive a non-ODF document from time to time.
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