"[H]omer" <spam@xxxxxxx> wrote in news:92b9a5-rj4.ln1@xxxxxxxxxx:
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Microsoft releases updated Office-OpenOffice XML translator, ramps up
>> document interop efforts as ISO mulls OpenXML
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>> | Microsoft today launched an update of its OpenXML and ODF
>> | translator for its Excel and Powerpoint applications and pledged to
>> | keep churning out more documentation to enable interoperability â??
>> | and more patents to protect that IP.
>
> Isn't that an oxymoron?
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>> | [...]
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>> | Microsoft would not disclose pricing for its protocol licensing but
>> | pledged today that going forward it will be offered at a
>> | â??reasonable and non discriminatoryâ?? (RAND) manner.
>
> Wait... I'm confused. Are they saying we need to /pay/ to use their
> "open" standard?
No - they are talking about their release of the documentation of e.g.
internal Microsoft Office APIs and a long list of the protocols connecting
their vertical hub (SharePoint, Exchange Server etc).
--
Jesper Lund Stocholm
http://idippedut.dk
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