We need readability and reliability!
Sorry, you are totaly wrong. Someone is a grufty, because he wants using files, produced and stored 10 years ago?
I have a private libray, maybe 3000 books. Some are 100 years old or more. I can read them without problems.
But if i want read a file, 10 years old, im a grufty.
Obsolete! Throw all away what is older then 2 or 3 years, ex and hopp.
Sorry this is very stupid.
You are living today, without history, without future.
How old is LibreOffice or OpenOffice or even StarOffice? Nearly 15 years. How old is Computing, how old BookPrinting, how old is writing, how old the human culture? Throw it all away?
If libreoffice will continue this way, it will himself be thrown away, will exist not at all in 10 years. Such a philosophy is inhuman and stupid. A mankind without history has no future.
What we need is seriosity and reliability. Libreoffice dont want to be reliable? Ok, ciao LibreOffice.
But i hope there are some more intelligent and wise people, even between nerds. Not sdw-filter is obsolete, the elimination of sdw-filter is obsolete.
Sorry for my bad english. Greetings and all the best to the new year.
Konni Schmidt
konni.schmidt@posteo.de
See also: Can LibreOffice read StarOffice sdw files?
Deploy a VMWare virtual machine with Windows XP and Install StarOffice 5 in there, It performs much better, faster and with more reliable features that current OO/LO versions.
While I understand perfectly the reasons that may lead to the removal of the write function(s) for older formats, I am afraid the absence of backward compatibility to read legacy files will give the project a strong negative image, if the decision is not reverted or compensated by an appropriate plug-in or add-on.
Dear developers, you can by no means assume that people who are using LibreOffice since the first days of StarOffice for more than twenty years, are able to go today and just because some developers decide so, through hundreds or thousands of files on their computers, old computers, data supports, web storage and databases to convert them into a more modern format.
Removing backward compatibility, especially read ability, with previous formats is a stupid, lazy thing to do. It creates a very unprofessional image and does not inspire confidence in users, especially corporate users. Why would anyone choose to switch to a software package which in 5 or 10 years might no longer support documents created now? The world is not all about shiny shiny new shit. Now I have to go find an old version of OO/LO to install to get access to the single old doc I need.
and what's with a 500 character comment length limit?