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The OOXML interoperability scam
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| Every time the Microsoft Office team
| pushes a comment on the wire, there is
| another pledge for interoperability. It
| has been so common for the last few years
| that if you haven't actually watched what
| it might mean, pretty much OOXML is
| synonym with interoperability.
|
| Of course, it does not matter that the
| word interoperability alone does not mean
| anything. That is why Microsoft uses it so
| much. You can pretty much put an
| interoperability label to anything as long
| as it is not accurately defined. Does it
| mean document-level interoperability?
| Application-level interoperability? Or,
| perhaps is it just Microsoft-only
| interoperability (a good guess!)?
|
| The pledge for interoperability cannot
| possibly mean document-level
| interoperability since we are not there :
| OOXML is full of non-XML streams, barely
| defined at all (the official papers lack
| everything related to international
| features, and that is just one example),
| so that ends any serious discussion
| precociously. In the remainder of his
| article, I'll be taking a look at
| application-level interoperability, in
| case Microsoft means that.
|
| [...]
|
| Simple tests like this leave me a bit
| speechless when you see that Microsoft
| Office is supposed to be the rolls royce
| of Office programs in the world, the de
| facto standard. And in fact it's just
| crap. On the contrary OpenOffice, the free
| suite, is actually a more serious product
| when it comes to application-level
| interoperability. This had to be said...
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http://ooxmlisdefectivebydesign.blogspot.com/2010/05/ooxml-interoperability-scam.html
Promoting Open Source Software in Government: The Challenges of Motivation and Follow-Through [PDF]
http://politicsofopensource.jitp.net/sites/politicsofopensource.jitp.net/files/papers/Oram_1.pdf
Making ODF better with HTML5?
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| After a few posts around the net talking
| about the now 5 years of ODF. I want to
| talk about what I have lately been talking
| on what would this new web era can bring
| to ODF. For the most part of those 5 years
| I have heard and listen to talks about the
| future of ODF, itâs integration with
| semantic web. Itâs advantages over
| security, digital signatures, third party
| applications and further development
| within OpenOffice.org.
|
| We are now going into the era of HTML5
| which is supposed to come with so much
| more advantages for the web and ODF would
| find a new niche were to grow and expand.
| So HTML5 have been talked about producing
| new technical advantages such as:
|
| * Geodata
| * Storage API
| * Simple scripting (no namespaces)
| * Audio and Video
| * Interactivity like Drag and Drop
|
| [...]
|
| So why we keep comparing ODF and whatever
| happens on the web? Certainly ODF has
| always done this, with standards like
| Dublin-core, MathML, and other standards.
| Microformats, and Geo locational web can
| certainly be in that train of thought. If
| the applications support it or not, letâs
| be clear, ODF should mark the leadership,
| and the apps should follow, so is meant to
| be that the apps should catch up to ODF
| and not the other way around.
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http://www.alexandrocolorado.com/wordpress/?p=765
The ODF Podcast 001: Svante Schubert on ODF, RDF and ODFDOM
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| Last month OASIS ODF Adoption TC member
| Rob Weir sat down with Svante Schubert at
| the Plugfest in Granada to discuss a range
| of topics, including ODF 1.2's RDF-based
| metadata and Svante's work on ODFDOM. You
| can listen to this interview in our first
| episode of the ODF Podcast.
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http://opendocument.xml.org/resource/the-odf-podcast-001-svante-schubert-on-odf-rdf-and-odfdom
Recent:
ODF at 5 Years
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| To fully appreciate the significance of ODF
| you need to understand the market climate in
| which it was created, and to understand that
| you need to understand a little of the
| history of word processors. The following
| time line illustrates the introduction dates
| of word processor applications over the past
| 30 years or so.
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http://www.robweir.com/blog/2010/05/odf-5-years.html
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