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Re: why all the windows stuff? lets move on from legacy integration and do new cool stuff

 

On 01/11/12 21:14, Michael G. Vlachos wrote:
Pawel,

I agree to all of your points...but here a problem that I have. My company started to cooperate with two public organizations in Greece in order to change all their infrastructure from windows to Ubuntu. These organizations are autonomous meaning they decided to change, they don't follow the public sector which using windows (by contract). That means they have to collaborate with all the others. That means we want it or not we need to be compatible with windows. The problem I have is a little of bit off topic of what we are discussing and is that Libre Office have a lot of compatibility issues with ms office.
yes, this is absolutely 100% something that could and should be improved. Ubuntu would be better if LibreOffice was better with compatibility with other office suites (I think it is pretty good already, but I know it can be better). However, this can't be done in the Ubuntu project - it isn't something we can sensibly patch better as a function of packaging and distribution (not now that LibreOffice includes all the stuff from go-oo.org that we used to patch in to OpenOffice.org) it needs to be done in the LibreOffice upstream project.

We could package improved default templates, that is something I would like to get involved in (I was discussing that last cycle but I didn't have time to really do anything much about it)

Alan.

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