A most ingenious paradox: make 1900 a leap year?
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| I don't believe there's been enough discussion of the weaknesses
| gradually being uncovered in Microsoft's 6,000-page dump of Office
| behavior, which they are trying to call a standard.
|
| [...]
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| To help Office to become a standard, one adaptation governments
| could make would be to retroactively declare 1900 a leap year.
| This would require updates to history books and other documents
| (for instance, V-E day would change to May 7, and the World
| Trade Center attacks would have taken place on September 10)
| but I'd like to see a cost comparison with the alternative that
| businesses dread: migrating to open document formats.
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http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/01/a_most_ingenious_paradox_make.html
Yes, even (software) bugs are part of the standard. Forget about proprietary
extensions that are not even included in this 6,000-page historical DNA
sequence.
Related:
The Open XML Lie
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| The basic premise of Rob's article was that the Microsoft Open
| XML Specification was similar to creating a job description
| that would allow for only one qualified respondent. Such a
| job description might read as follows:
|
| * 5 years experience with Java, J2EE and web development, PHP, XSLT
| * Fluency in French and Corsican
| * Experience with the Llama farming industry
| * Mole on left shoulder
| * Sister named Bridgette
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http://3monkeyweb.com/3monkeys/2007/01/17/the-open-xml-lie/
The Formats of Excel 2007
http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/01/formats-of-excel-2007.html
Is Open XML a one way specification for most people?
http://sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=1145
Is Office Open XML A One-Way Standard? Ask Microsoft
http://blogs.adobe.com/shebanation/2006/12/open_xml_one-way.html
Signs That Your "Open Standard" May Not Be Open Enough
http://boycottnovell.com/2006/12/07/signs-that-your-open-standard-may-not-be-open-enough/
Novell's "Danaergeschenk", by Georg Greve
http://groklaw.net/article.php?story=20061208135621706
Sun slams Ecma's OpenXML OK
http://www.itweek.co.uk/itweek/news/2170681/sun-slams-ecma-openxml-ok
The Way Forward -- Georg Greve Responds to Groklaw's Comments
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20061212025314700#comments
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