Re: [News] Why Microsoft Open XML is a Scam

[Donn Miller <hackr_d@xxxxxxxxx>]

Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
> On Thu, 07 Dec 2006 08:19:37 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
> > Signs That Your "Open Standard" May Not Be Open Enough
>
> You've really been on a FUD roll here Roy.
>
> > ,----[ Quote ]
> > | If OOXML is an open standard, why must Mac MS Office users wait so
> > | long for OOXML support? Correct me if I am wrong, but MS Office on
> > | the Mac is developed by Microsoft themselves, how is it that the
> > | Windows Office development team had access to the OOXML specification
> > | but the Mac Office team did not?
>
> They did.  They've been busy working on the next version of Office:mac,
> with the next version due sometime next summer.  We don't know why Legacy
> OXML support was such a low priority for them, but just because they chose
> not to implement legacy support in time has no bearing on how "open" the
> format is.

Do you use any open source tools, Erik, like Open Office for instance? 
I was curious. It seems pretty decent to me.  Maybe KWord or Abiword can 
do things O-O can't.  One thing in particular KWord is better at is 
inter-operability with LaTeX, or so I've read.  Probably none of the two 
can read Power Point as well as O-O, and even that doesn't always work 
100%.  I've read O-O has an engine that reads Power Point quite well.

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