On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:12:14 -0800 (PST), toolassembler@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hey Tim & Erik:
>
> I have an answer for you: zero.
>
> That's right: not a single one.
>
> The question was: How many countries did not raise their hand when the
> ODF format was proposed at ISO?
>
> I believe they call that *unanimity*.
Yes. The reason was that there weren't people with financial interests
opposed to ODF. If ODF had received even 1/10th of the scrutiny that OOXML
has received, people would have known there was no accessibility support,
they would have known there was no standardized formula support, they would
have known it had many of the same shortcomings that they accuse OOXML of.
But it didn't, because Microsoft (probably naively) thought that OOXMl
would sail through standardization just as easily as ODF did. They didn't
count on Sun, IBM, and others mounting a massive disinformation campaign
against them.
And yes, they have mounted such a campaign. Virtually every major blog
that focuses on crticizing OOXML is run by someone with a financial
conflict of interest with Microsoft.
Rob Weir - IBM Employee
Bob Sutor - IBM Employee
Open Malaysia Blog (Hassan)- IBM Employee
Andy Updegrove - Lawyer for OASIS
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