In article <slrnfruumu.867.postmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Bob Hauck <postmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:29:23 -0800, Tim Smith
> <reply_in_group@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > But Sun considers standards a strategic weapon, and made sure that ODF
> > would not include anything that StarOffice didn't need, and so we are
> > doomed to at least two standards. :-(
>
> And Microsoft doesn't? Consider standards to be strategic weapons I
> maen. Sure they do. And that's part of the problem. Everybody is
So? Last I checked, Microsoft wasn't in charge of ODF standardization,
so their view on standards doesn't excuse Sun's limiting ODF.
...
> At least ODF has multiple existing implementations, imperfect though
> they may be. Sun doesn't control KOffice or Abiword. So however bad
> Sun is, they seem to be better for users than Microsoft.
Last I checked, Microsoft doesn't control Apple, Corel, Thinkfree,
QuickOffice, Dataviz, and the various others that have implement OOXML.
(Well, except on that chart on Roy's site--it shows Microsoft
controlling Apple...)
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