Leslie D'Monte: Double standards
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| While majors like IBM, Red Hat, Novell, Apple and the Free Software
| Foundation (all part of the ODF alliance) support the open document format,
| Microsoft does not subscribe to the ODF line of thinking.
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| Multiple standards create a problem. Take, for instance, a case wherein you
| want to retrieve an old land record from a government office in India. If the
| record is in the OOXML format, then ODF document users would need a converter
| to decode the record. Likewise, OOXML users would have a problem with ODF
| documents. Microsoft has a tie-up with Novell, so the conversion may be
| smooth. But that’s not the case with other companies.
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http://www.business-standard.com/common/storypage.php?leftnm=lmnu9&subLeft=&autono=292022&tab=r
Format Wars
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| We hate format wars. Not because we're afraid of good old-fashioned tech
| fisticuffs, but because they're often completely unjust. So often, the format
| that wins isn't technically better than the competition, just cheaper or
| better marketed. (And no, we're not just sore because we were Betamax
| owners.)
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http://digitalliving.cnet.co.uk/specials/0,39030785,49291589,00.htm
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