as long as users continue buyingrenting microsoft’s product and continue to create files with it, competing software need to be able to open them. if a program can no longer open those bastardized files, it is that program, not the file formats, that will fade into irrelevance fairly quickly.
People, like me, don’t use these Microsoft files anymore but I understand I would be incredibly frustrated if one, that I need to open, lands on my lap and I can’t open it.
It’s just that I wonder how much code is used to even read these shitty files properly. I wonder how many human programming hours is used to deal with them that can be used to progress LibreOffice in some other way? I wonder how many times a LibreOffice programmer is yelling at their screen “WHY THE FUCK DID YOU GO TO A NEW LINE?!”
You probably can compile LibreOffice without MS file formats. Though I agree that it would be much better software if they don’t have to deal with MS bullshit.
as long as users continue
buyingrenting microsoft’s product and continue to create files with it, competing software need to be able to open them. if a program can no longer open those bastardized files, it is that program, not the file formats, that will fade into irrelevance fairly quickly.Yeah I understand.
People, like me, don’t use these Microsoft files anymore but I understand I would be incredibly frustrated if one, that I need to open, lands on my lap and I can’t open it.
It’s just that I wonder how much code is used to even read these shitty files properly. I wonder how many human programming hours is used to deal with them that can be used to progress LibreOffice in some other way? I wonder how many times a LibreOffice programmer is yelling at their screen “WHY THE FUCK DID YOU GO TO A NEW LINE?!”
“GO TO YOUR HOME?! DON’T YOU LIKE YOUR HOME?! ARE YOU TOO GOOD FOR YOUR HOME?!”
You probably can compile LibreOffice without MS file formats. Though I agree that it would be much better software if they don’t have to deal with MS bullshit.