Pages 5 not opening earlier files

I have just received a Pages 5.0 file which will not open in my Pages '09.
Why is 5.0 not backward compatible within Pages, while Pages '09 can easily manage to open Word docs? What an insult to Mac devotees.
Blackmail to get me to upgrade or what?

Ask whoever sent you the file to:
Menu > Export > Pages '09 or Word .docx
Pages '09/'08 can not open Pages 5 files and you will get the warning that you need a newer version.
Pages 5.2 can open Pages '09 files but may damage/alter them. It can not open Pages '08 files at all.
Older versions of Pages 5 can not open files from later versions of Pages 5.
Once opened and saved in Pages 5 the Pages '09 files can not be opened in Pages '09.
Anything that is saved to iCloud and opened in a newer version of Pages is also converted to Pages 5 files.
All Pages files no matter what version and incompatibility have the same extension .pages.
Pages 5 files are now only compatible with themselves on a very restricted set of hardware, software and Operating Systems and will not transfer correctly on any other server software than iCloud.
Apple has removed almost 100 features from Pages 5 and added many bugs:
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Dear all,
i am test the report to show "No Data Found" world, but, when i preview to PDF, i got the message :An error occurred while opening the file, you can not open this file because it does not page.
i try to load the other xml file that have data, and report work,no error.
i don't know where is the problem, so i need some help....
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<?end for-each?>
<?end for-each?>
<?end if?>
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