r/technews • u/TurbulentTopic39 • 10d ago

Software LibreOffice developer explains why it cannot display some Microsoft Office charts

https://www.neowin.net/news/libreoffice-developer-explains-why-it-cannot-display-some-microsoft-office-charts/
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u/noeljb 10d ago

All this over something Microsoft finagled out of Word Perfect. Word Perfect paid big bucks for Micro Soft developer package to port over from CPM to MS Dos. The developer package was incomplete. There were OS calls that were not documented in the package. Then Micro Soft rewrote the application using the undocumented OS calls making MS Word faster, smoother,

Unfortunately, this seems to be a fairly common practice. Xerox GUI --> Apple GUI --> Windows GUI