<div>I tend to agree and disagree. I think that ultimately it could dampen creativity but we have to consider some of the facts:<br></div><div><br></div><div>1. Our goal (IMO) should be to make the transition from paid/closed source software, to open source software as easy as possible.</div>
<div>2. Most people start with MS Office, just an unfortunate reality</div><div>3. If one of our goals is to get more businesses/corporations using LO, increasing the compatibility and ease of transition with MS Excel is a must</div>
<div>4. One of the most consistent complaints that I've personally heard (and after complaints abandonment) of LO and OOo is when something "doesn't work" when it comes from Excel.</div><div><br></div><div>
I think that the reality is that if we push for both creativity and compatibility with Excel we can accomplish both.</div><div><br></div><div>As for FDO #, my mistake, working on too many things at once. Here is the proper bug:</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46918">https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46918</a></div><div><br></div><div>Just my two cents. </div><div><br></div><div>Joel </div><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Rainer Bielefeld <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:LibreOffice@bielefeldundbuss.de" target="_blank">LibreOffice@bielefeldundbuss.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Joel Madero schrieb:<div class="im"><br>
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I'd like to make a meta bug for functions that Excel has but that aren't<br>
currently supported<br>
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Hi,<br>
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I am a little waffing. Such a Meta Bug would allow to get some objective data comparing capabilities of LibO Calc and Excel. But I hate this staring to excel and the boring "Excel does it so and so", that damps all creativity. Without more urgent arguments I currently would not create such a task bug.<br>
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BTW, I can't see relation of Bug 47164 with such a Task bug.<br>
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Best Regards<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Rainer<br>
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