On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:32:44 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Microsoft won't commit to the open document standard it's pushing so hard
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>| Now consider this from Brian Jones, a Microsoft manager who has worked on
>| OOXML for six years. In July, Jones was asked on his blog whether Microsoft
>| would actually commit to conform to an officially standardised OOXML. His
>| response:
>|
>| ?It?s hard for Microsoft to commit to what comes out of Ecma [the European
>| standards group that has already OK?d OOXML] in the coming years, because we
>| don?t know what direction they will take the formats. We?ll of course stay
>| active and propose changes based on where we want to go with Office 14. At
>| the end of the day, though, the other Ecma members could decide to take the
>| spec in a completely different direction. ... Since it?s not guaranteed, it
>| would be hard for us to make any sort of official statement.?
>|
>| Now that?s cynical. After all this work to make OOXML a formal, independent
>| standard ? a standard created and promoted by Microsoft, remember ? Microsoft
>| won?t agree to follow it.
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> http://www.techworld.com/storage/features/index.cfm?featureid=3685&pagtype=all
That's funny. Where's the statement that Sun guarantees Star/OpenOffice
will always conform to ODF? Where's teh statement from the KDE team?
Where's the statement from IBM?
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