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tzs
on Dec 21, 2011
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Mayor of Munich: "EU laptops should have LibreOffi...
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
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rbanffy
on Dec 22, 2011
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Luckily, the source code for LibreOffice is not a secret.
Duff
on Dec 21, 2011
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Both Google and Microsoft were able to independently produce ODF implementations from the spec.
tzs
on Dec 22, 2011
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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.
rat87
on Dec 22, 2011
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but its in 1.2, right?
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