On 23.03.2022 8:23, Amit Amit wrote:
I was thinking that why does LibreOffice support document formats other
than that of Microsoft Office?
Windows run on around 90% of personal computers in this world.
Mac's share is around 5% and it also has Microsoft Office.
...
In my opinion, LibreOffice should support only Microsoft Office formats
and drop other formats.
This will lead to better LibreOffice software, efficient and optimum use
of resources, lesser number of features to implement, lesser number of
bugs to fix, more and more users of LibreOffice, etc.
Also, by supporting Microsoft Office formats only, it is quite possible
that Google, and other big companies in the world (like Pepsi, Bank of
America, etc.) may give funds to libreOffice. They will definitely
benefit because they will then not buy Microsoft Office but will use
LibreOffice.
In your message, you downgraded LibreOffice project into:
1. "Let us create something to attract users";
2. "Let us implement others' ideas".
LibreOffice is not like that. Some software can be created not to pull
users from other softwares, but to implement some ideas not implemented
in other products. E.g., LibreOffice focuses on styles in a way that is
far beyond of what is available in MS products; it is not just a clone.
And trying to implement standards created by MS, relying on their
engineers doing all the work on designing the principles, ways of use,
everything that is put into the file formats, would not only require us
to hopelessly try to catch up in the same game of imperfect support of
evolving standard created by others (but this time, that would be our
native format, so poor support of OOXML would not be accompanied by good
support of own format), but also would be simply not ethical towards MS :)
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Best regards,
Mike Kaganski
