OOXML, the past. ODF, the future.
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| ODF was already doing well and now has renewed momentum. Go with it.
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http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=1827
Microsoft denies OOXML has 'proprietary hooks'
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| As Australia and various other nations prepare to vote on whether Microsoft's
| Open Office XML becomes an ISO standard, the Redmond giant is attempting to
| downplay fears that OOXML adopters will be hooked into the company's
| technology.
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/video/soa/Microsoft-denies-OOXML-has-proprietary-hooks-/0,2000065477,22314049p,00.htm
Wrong. OOXML = Microsoft Office + Microsoft Windows. They try very hard to deny
OOXML's incompleteness. Watch this older item:
Bill Gates on Interoperability
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| Bill Gates is wrong here. Most open source software goes hand in hand with
| interoperability. Why? Open source software is usually written to open
| industry standards with the GPL. You don't have to buy an expensive license
| or sign an NDA to get the specifications to be interoperable. There are no
| restrictions or barriers to entry, except for whats contained in the GPL.
| Bill's open source statement is just more rhetoric and FUD.
|
| Microsoft is playing catch up with the industry. The industry is tired of bug
| infested, high cost, security risked proprietary software (Windows and .NET
| platform). The XML standard is providing the interoperability, not Microsoft.
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http://www.linuxelectrons.com/news/general/bill-gates-interoperability
Just shows you what Microsoft thinks about interoperability.
Related:
[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
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| 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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