<orcnote> below. -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Douglas Pitonyak [mailto:and...@pitonyak.org] Sent: Friday, October 24, 2014 06:18 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: OpenOffice lost again 6000 users (was: Improved OOXML support?)
On 10/24/2014 01:54 AM, Jörg Schmidt wrote: > But where is the problem? Either OOXML *is* ISO standard or is not > ISO-standard. If the problem is however that MS is 'meddling' in the > standard, then it is a political issue that requires policy responses > - not a question of software development. I am not overly informed on this, but, I think that the primary complaint was that the OOXML ISO standard supports storing proprietary binary blobs that are not part of the standard as aprt of the document. <orcnote> This was and is a red herring. The ODF specification is just as permissive in this regard. For example, there is no specification on the binary formats of images that are incorporated in ODF packages by our favorite ODF-supporting software. Also, the allowance of OLE objects opens a very wide door in ODF that is exploited by the prominent implementations. What would be more interesting is to see what either specification says about how such material is identified so implementations can determine what is present. It would also be interesting to know how well implementations identify what cases of this that are supported, somewhere that the information is readily available for the information of non-implementers. </orcnote> -- Andrew Pitonyak My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
