* Tim Smith peremptorily fired off this memo:
> In article <ZNevj.93074$_m.20215@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Linonut <linonut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > ODF also supports arbitrary vendor binary data, Roy. Haven't you read
>> > the ODF spec?
>>
>> Somehow, I worry about binary format from Sun and other vendors less
>> than I worry about them from our local predatory monopoly.
>
> So if someone puts an OLE object in an ODF document, that doesn't bother
> you, but if they put the same OLE object in an OOXML document, it does?
/That/ would bother me in either case.
You're confused, basically. A third-party can put whatever content they
want into the binary blob in either ODF or OOXML, and I can't get at it
to use it.
That's bad.
Now what third-parties might do that? Sun? Sure, they could, but I
don't think that's likely. Some other third-party? Sure, but I can
generally avoid their stuff without suffering harm. Microsoft? Their
stuff is the de facto standard, and they can put anything they like in
it, but it is much more difficult to avoid it, and thus suffer the harm
it causes (which may amount to nothing more than being unable to access
the data without paying money to a firm I distrust.)
--
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
-- Bill Gates
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