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[News] [Rival] Microsoft's Monopoly Enabler Has Proprietary 'Extensions', Stifles Competition

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] Microsoft's Monopoly Enabler Has Proprietary 'Extensions', Stifles Competition
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 06:41:50 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
[OOXML:] Competition Optional

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| In previous posts I have pointed out numerous "features" in OOXML which 
| cannot be implemented by anyone else but Microsoft. These stem from a variety 
| of causes, including elements lacking definition ("lineWrapLikeWord6") to 
| features that are tied to Windows or Office (e.g., Windows Metafiles) to 
| items that are "merely referenced (OLE, digital ink) to items that although 
| featured prominently in Office marketing materials, are curiously not 
| mentioned at all in the OOXML text (scripts, macros, DRM, SharePoint, etc.). 
| When these issues are raised, the typical response from Microsoft has been 
| along the lines of, "Don't worry, these features are optional. You don't need 
| to implement them. They are there for implementations that know what they 
| mean. If you don't understand them, you can ignore them."          
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http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/07/competition-optional.html

Here are his comments about the reasons why OOXML is madness.

My comments on the ETRM 4.0 draft

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| This was my response to the call for public comments on the Information 
| Technology Division's (ITD) Enterprise Technical Reference Model (ETRM) 4.0 
| draft.  
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http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/07/my-comments-on-etrm-40-draft.html


Related:

,----[ Quote ]
| From: Bill Gates
| Sent Sunday, October 06, 1996 11:54 AM
| To: Bob Muglia
| Cc: Aaron Contorer; Richard Fade; Steven Sinofsky; Paul Maritz; Nathan 
| Myhrvold; Brad Silverberg; Adam Bosworth
| Subject: Access, Internet studio, VB and other overlapping products
| 
| ..
| 
| Why is the difference between Internet studio and Access? I can't detect 
| any reasonable difference. Internet studio has taken an approach of 
| putting onto HTML pages the most ugly Microsoft garbage ever seen since 
|              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| COM/OLE programming in C++ was declared a success in order to block 
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| language invocation. i am still blown away by seeing all those ugly
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 
| PARAM statements in the HTML totally confusing anyone who tries to do 
| anything. If something isn't part of the WYSIWYG output then it should 
| be succinct and understandable. This was the opposite of that.
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http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/2000/PX02563.pdf

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