Mayor of Munich: "EU laptops should have LibreOffice or OpenOffice"

Re:Mayor of Munich: "EU laptops should have LibreOffice or O... by Duff on Wednesday December 21, 2011 @04:27PM (#3379231)

Open is just part of the equation. ODF is also an international standard: ISO/IEC 26300:2006 Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) v1.0

The point is, in the distant future, someone will be able to use the specification for ODF and read a document that complies with the standard. All aspects of the file will be reproducible, including metadata, tables, etc.

And as I said, open formats are just one approach. The approach that the US Courts and the State of Washington takes (conversion to PDF/A or TIFF) is a valid approach too.

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Re:Mayor of Munich: "EU laptops should have LibreOffice or O... by tzs on Wednesday December 21, 2011 @05:07PM (#3379364)

If all they have is the document and the ODF specification, they are out of luck. They'll need the OpenOffice or LibreOffice source code, as that is the real specification.

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Re:Mayor of Munich: "EU laptops should have LibreOffice or O... by rbanffy on Wednesday December 21, 2011 @08:27PM (#3379917)

Luckily, the source code for LibreOffice is not a secret.

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Re:Mayor of Munich: "EU laptops should have LibreOffice or O... by Duff on Wednesday December 21, 2011 @05:45PM (#3379463)

Both Google and Microsoft were able to independently produce ODF implementations from the spec.

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Re:Mayor of Munich: "EU laptops should have LibreOffice or O... by tzs on Wednesday December 21, 2011 @07:38PM (#3379790)

No, they looked at things outside the spec. That's the only way to do it with ODF 1.0, since the spec is massively incomplete.

For instance, it does not specify how formulas work in spreadsheets.

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Re:Mayor of Munich: "EU laptops should have LibreOffice or O... by rat87 on Thursday December 22, 2011 @05:24AM (#3381086)

but its in 1.2, right?

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