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Subject: Re: [office-comment] OpenFormulas
Gary Edwards wrote: > Hi David, > > Wow! You're on fire. I just want to duck low and get out of the way! Haha! Thanks! > We discussed the OpenFormula options at the Monday morning TC > conference. There was general agreement that we ought to get out of the > way and let you push forward. Thanks! I've been working on a first cut. > But we also think that we need to get > your proposals in front of the OOo and KOffice project people as soon as > you're ready. Like everything else in the OASIS OpenDocument spec, we > try to get proposals in front of the application developers and beta > testers as soon as possible. I agree. I want to have a little something so that there isn't a blank slate (that's hard to work with), but I cannot possibly do this alone. > In fact, one of the things that came up this morning was the discovery > that both KOffice and OOo model their formulas after MS eXcel. Actually, I already knew that. Excel, in turn, was based on 1-2-3, which was based on VisiCalc. In fact, I think this makes the idea of creating a standard far more tractable. I'd be delighted to discuss all sorts of possibilities. The goal in my mind is clear: to allow the exchange of formulas -- at least for typical spreadsheets and/or related office documents. > You're working on a very unique and important gift to the world. And > many thanks for including us. Do we have your permission to bring in > our community experts and testers? Of course! In fact, this can't work without them. --- David A. Wheeler
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