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Re: [News] ODF to Swallow OOXML?

____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 05 February 2008 16:29 : \____

> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> The Case for Harmonization
>> 
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| So we've agreed that this approach is technically feasible. We're also
>>| agreed that extending ODF outside of the standards process is not a good
>>| idea. So the obvious solution is to extend ODF within the standards
>>| process. So, let's do it! What are we waiting for?
>>| 
>>| There is no reason why, by a harmonization process, all of the
>>| functionality of Microsoft Office cannot be represented on a base of ISO
>>| 26300 OpenDocument Format. I personally, as Co-Chair of the OASIS ODF TC,
>>| stand ready and willing to sponsor such a harmonization effort in OASIS. So
>>| let's start harmonization now, and avoid further divergence.
>> `----
>> 
>> http://www.robweir.com/blog/2008/01/case-for-harmonization.html
>> 
> 
> Except that this is the last thing Microsoft would want to happen.

Microsoft recently got caught saying something along the lines of "our business
is based on controlling the standards."

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