(OOXML) Billions of Documents
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| Q: So if Macros are not included in Ecma 376, will developers who
| develop it independently get sued?"
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| [MS rep:] "I will have to get back to you..."
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| This has direct implications to the guys at Novell who are working on
| VBA integration with OpenOffice.org. Sure, with the new partnership
| between Microsoft and Novell, customers of Novell would not get sued,
| but the Novell team themselves and all other OpenOffice.org users are
| at risk here. So it's imperative the Microsoft provides an answer if
| closely related technologies to MSOOXML are also covered in this
| covenant, so it is possible for third parties to develop solutions.
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http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2007/02/billions_of_doc.html
Related:
FFII opposes Fasttrack adoption of Microsoft OOXML format as ISO standard
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| The FFII has several concerns with the proposed standard. OpenXML
| relies on undisclosed patents, and undisclosed or incomplete
| licensing terms that make any independent reimplementation
| impossible or heavily risky. It obliges implementors to
| reverse-engineer the behavior of old closed Microsoft
| applications and formats. It uses non-standard formats for
| languages and dates, and specifies known bugs, such as
| treating 1900 as a leap year.
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http://press.ffii.org/Press_releases/FFII_opposes_Fasttrack_adoption_of_Microsoft_OOXML_format_as_ISO_standard
http://tinyurl.com/2qxk7p
Microsoft standards bid faces failure
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| Microsoft's bid to get its Open XML formats recognised as an
| international standard faces a delay for at least three months
| and could fail altogether, it emerged today.
|
| The British Standards Institute, which represents the UK with
| the International Standards Organisation, has issued what is
| called a " contradiction" to Microsoft's specification.
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http://www.computeractive.co.uk/personal-computer-world/news/2174199/microsoft-standards-bid-faces
http://tinyurl.com/2yk773
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