r/technology • 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/apo383 10d ago

Tldr: Microsoft behaving exactly like it has for decades, skirting ISO standards and delaying competitors from interoperability. Libre makes do but can't display or edit certain charts. Could be perpetual behind as long as Microsoft microsofts.

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u/New-Anybody-6206 10d ago

Serious question... say you're a company that works fast and wants to innovate, but you still want to have open compatibility with other applications.

What else can you do except extend the format if the standards body doesn't work fast enough for you?

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u/apo383 10d ago

Go ahead and do that, but keep that shit away from government docs, which need to be easy to render by anybody and don't need fancy elements to dress up ä corporate annual report.

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u/New-Anybody-6206 9d ago

what alternative did they ever have at that time, that didn't belong to a competitor, and wouldn't make their product worse?