<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <style type="text/css" style="display:none;"> P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;} </style> </head> <body dir="ltr"> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Hi Amit,</div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <br> </div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Firstly I apologize if i offended but rubbish is another way to say incorrect but again apologies there.</div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <br> </div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> You mention that LO is not perfect, is there <u>any</u> software that is perfect? Lastly if you feel there are lots of shortcomings in LO why not give back to the community and help to improve it.</div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <br> </div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Regards,<br> Jonathan</div> <div id="appendonsend"></div> <hr style="display:inline-block;width:98%" tabindex="-1"> <div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> LibreOffice <libreoffice-bounces@lists.freedesktop.org> on behalf of Mike Kaganski <mikekaganski@hotmail.com><br> <b>Sent:</b> 23 March 2022 07:45<br> <b>To:</b> A <amit.general.misc@gmail.com><br> <b>Cc:</b> libreoffice@lists.freedesktop.org <libreoffice@lists.freedesktop.org><br> <b>Subject:</b> Re: Hi (Formats supported by LibreOffice).</font> <div> </div> </div> <div class="BodyFragment"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"> <div class="PlainText">On 23.03.2022 9:36, A wrote:<br> > I think that you are just trying to prove your point by saying anything <br> > which does not make sense.<br> > <br> > LO official web page at<br> > <br> > <a href="https://link.edgepilot.com/s/52b78844/y5qi346VH0WtXkzp_18zXw?u=https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/libreoffice/%23:%7E:text=LibreOffice%2520is%2520compatible%2520with%2520a%2Cxls%252C"> https://link.edgepilot.com/s/52b78844/y5qi346VH0WtXkzp_18zXw?u=https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/libreoffice/%23:%7E:text=LibreOffice%2520is%2520compatible%2520with%2520a%2Cxls%252C</a> <br> > <<a href="https://link.edgepilot.com/s/52b78844/y5qi346VH0WtXkzp_18zXw?u=https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/libreoffice/%23:%7E:text=LibreOffice%2520is%2520compatible%2520with%2520a%2Cxls%252C">https://link.edgepilot.com/s/52b78844/y5qi346VH0WtXkzp_18zXw?u=https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/libreoffice/%23:%7E:text=LibreOffice%2520is%2520compatible%2520with%2520a%2Cxls%252C</a>>.<br> > <br> > says the following:<br> > <br> > LibreOffice is compatible with a wide range of document formats such as <br> > Microsoft® Word (.doc, .docx), Excel (.xls, .xlsx), PowerPoint (.ppt, <br> > .pptx) and Publisher.<br> > <br> > But you say that **** LibreOffice is not "MS Office compatible software" <br> > ****<br> > <br> > So, who is right? - you or LO official web page?<br> <br> I would argue that it was you who claimed that "You should have some <br> respect for everyone" - and writing "you are just trying to prove your <br> point by saying anything which does not make sense" looks funny in that <br> context.<br> <br> I would also argue that someone claiming some IT background ("Masters in <br> Computer Networking from NCSU, NC, USA") is expected to use terms <br> correctly, and understand the difference between compatibility with file <br> formats vs being "MS Office compatible" (which is much broader thing); <br> and especially so since the specific topic you are answering to was <br> "relying on their engineers doing all the work on designing the <br> principles, ways of use, everything that is put into the file formats <br> ... would be simply not ethical towards MS" - so the question was <br> creating a clone of MS Office, using the *principles, ways of use, etc* <br> that stems from having a file format as native, not being able to read <br> from and write to.<br> <br> But anyway, you got the feedback. If you "don't understand what is the <br> goal of LO", you better learn that - best by trying to be part of the <br> community for some time - before trying to revolutionize the community <br> that you are not part of.<br> <br> -- <br> Best regards,<br> Mike Kaganski<br> </div> </span></font></div> </body> </html>