Re: [wilhelmtux-discussion] Q. about Windows/Excel-specific EBG's Lohngleichheits-Test für Unternehmen (Logib)

[Claude Almansi (BW)]

Aaron Wittmann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> i can send you a converted file in to *.ods of openoffice 2.0 if you 
> like. But i'm not shure all the macros will work proper.
> (...)
> 

Thanks, Aaron, that would be great! And it's great that you've managed
to open it. But considering that:

pcdog at pcdog.ch [silvan gebhardt] wrote:
> hi
> i think, we should write them and show that we dislike it. i was 
unable to
> open it on debian, too, with newest openoffice.
>

there does seem to be a problem. Besides, I understand very little about
technical things, so I like and need clearly described products. I found 
the EBG's description of their testing tool verbose, jargoning and hazy, 
  compared to e.g. descriptions of Firefox or Thundebird extensions.

One odd thing too: in the FAQ page, the contact person for technical
support does not have an @ebg.admin.ch address, and the handle is
lohntool at ... There is a lohntool.exe program to calculate salaries,
  made by rosesoft.de. And their
http://www.rosesoft.de/download.htm page also lacks clear descriptions 
of the products and their requirements.

But whether  the EBG outsourced the test conception to rosesoft.de or 
not, maybe we could ask them to publish a list of the macros the test 
uses, so that other versions for other softwares/OS's can be made?

Best

Claude Almansi