User: jpmcc   
Date: 2009-05-06 23:01:05+0000
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+       <entry xml:lang="en">
+               <title type="html">ODF with no excuse</title>
+               <link 
href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/05/06/odf-with-no-excuse/"/>
+               
<id>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/05/06/odf-with-no-excuse/</id>
+               <updated>2009-05-06T17:12:09+00:00</updated>
+               <content type="html">&lt;p&gt; Reports start to appear in the 
press about the ODF support quality enabled by the Service Pack 2 inside 
Microsoft Office 2007. I could say that I&amp;#8217;m not surprised,&lt;br /&gt;
+but I somewhat had also expected the contrary. Unfortunately it seems we have 
here a poor implementation of ODF. If further reports confirm it (and I have no 
serious doubt they will),&lt;br /&gt;
+we will have the case of a monopolistic vendor messing up its own 
implementation of an open standard and have no viable excuse for doing 
so.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;If we are to believe several reports who all link to &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://www.robweir.com/blog/2009/05/update-on-odf-spreadsheet.html&quot;&gt;Rob
 Weir&amp;#8217;s own thorough review&lt;/a&gt; ,&lt;br /&gt;
+Microsoft has not only done a poor job implementing ODF, it has also ended up 
into a quite unique &lt;em&gt;endless loop phenomenon&lt;/em&gt; . What this 
basically means is that in some instances&lt;br /&gt;
+ODF documents created by Microsoft Office will only be readable and editable 
in&amp;#8230; Microsoft Office. How was this possible? Apparently when you want 
to mess up something, you always find ways to do so.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;It would be very tempting to assume that if such a loop, as I call 
it, was possible, then the real technical flaw has been lying inside the 
standard&amp;#8217;s specification for quite some time. And you know 
what?&lt;br /&gt;
+This is obviously the case&amp;#8230; otherwise it would not have been 
possible, or else, MS does not produce conforming ODF documents. But the worst 
part may not even be there.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;What we should perhaps realize today, is that one company charged of 
monopolistic abuse, after having imposed its own office document standard at 
the ISO (this one being itself under investigation),&lt;br /&gt;
+is now trying to break the existing interoperability with the ODF standard. It 
would not be the first time Microsoft would have had this strategy. But it just 
reveals how little has changed inside this company.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The intended effect, or should I say the risk, is that given a market 
share gained and maintained mostly by monopolistic practices and network 
effects, Microsoft Officer will lock its users in its very own,&lt;br /&gt;
+incompatible and uninteroperable version of ODF. This is called 
&lt;em&gt;format filibustering&lt;/em&gt; and it is an art Redmond has mastered 
over the years. I do urge Microsoft to reconsider these biased and unproductive 
practices.&lt;br /&gt;
+They will only end up harming its customers. As for ODF, things are going to 
become very interesting, I think. This time, there is a real chance the market 
will not let Microsoft fool it again.&lt;br /&gt;
+And what the market will ask for will be pure, unbiased ODF that can interact 
with various ODF-capable systems. This time, there will be no excuse.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p class=&quot;akst_link&quot;&gt;&lt;a 
href=&quot;http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=124&amp;akst_action=share-this&quot;
 title=&quot;E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc.&quot; 
id=&quot;akst_link_124&quot; class=&quot;akst_share_link&quot; 
rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Share This&lt;/a&gt;
+&lt;/p&gt;</content>
+               <author>
+                       <name>Charles Schulz</name>
+                       <uri>http://standardsandfreedom.net</uri>
+               </author>
+               <source>
+                       <title type="html">Moved by Freedom - Powered by 
Standards » OOo Postings</title>
+                       <subtitle type="html">A weblog by Charles-H. 
Schulz.</subtitle>
+                       <link rel="self" 
href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/category/ooo-postings/feed"/>
+                       
<id>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/category/ooo-postings/feed</id>
+                       <updated>2009-05-06T23:00:22+00:00</updated>
+               </source>
+       </entry>
+
        <entry>
                <title type="html">OpenOffice.org LinuxTag partner booth</title>
                <link 
href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2009/05/openofficeorg-linuxtag-partner-booth.html"/>
@@ -24,7 +58,7 @@
                        <subtitle type="html">News and interesting stories 
about OpenOffice.org and other open source solutions.</subtitle>
                        <link rel="self" 
href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/>
                        <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632</id>
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<id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id>
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about OpenOffice.org and other open source solutions.</subtitle>
                        <link rel="self" 
href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/>
                        <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632</id>
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                        <link rel="self" 
href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/category/ooo-postings/feed"/>
                        
<id>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/category/ooo-postings/feed</id>
-                       <updated>2009-05-05T23:00:17+00:00</updated>
+                       <updated>2009-05-06T23:00:22+00:00</updated>
                </source>
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<id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id>
-                       <updated>2009-05-06T17:00:21+00:00</updated>
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<id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id>
-                       <updated>2009-05-06T17:00:21+00:00</updated>
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@@ -349,7 +383,7 @@
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<id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id>
-                       <updated>2009-05-06T17:00:21+00:00</updated>
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@@ -390,7 +424,7 @@
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about OpenOffice.org and other open source solutions.</subtitle>
                        <link rel="self" 
href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/>
                        <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632</id>
-                       <updated>2009-05-06T17:00:35+00:00</updated>
+                       <updated>2009-05-06T23:00:35+00:00</updated>
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@@ -475,7 +509,7 @@
                        <subtitle type="html">A weblog by Charles-H. 
Schulz.</subtitle>
                        <link rel="self" 
href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/category/ooo-postings/feed"/>
                        
<id>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/category/ooo-postings/feed</id>
-                       <updated>2009-05-05T23:00:17+00:00</updated>
+                       <updated>2009-05-06T23:00:22+00:00</updated>
                </source>
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@@ -540,27 +574,7 @@
                        <subtitle type="html">News and interesting stories 
about OpenOffice.org and other open source solutions.</subtitle>
                        <link rel="self" 
href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/>
                        <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632</id>
-                       <updated>2009-05-06T17:00:35+00:00</updated>
-               </source>
-       </entry>
-
-       <entry>
-               <title type="html">OpenOffice.org Special at Heise 
(German)</title>
-               <link 
href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2009/04/openofficeorg-special-at-heise-german.html"/>
-               
<id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-2059215242010135251</id>
-               <updated>2009-04-18T17:58:54+00:00</updated>
-               <content type="html">German publisher Heise just put online its 
OpenOffice.org Special, talking about extensions: &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://www.heise.de/software/download/special/openoffice_lernt_dazu/57_1&quot;&gt;http://www.heise.de/software/download/special/openoffice_lernt_dazu/57_1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div
 class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;1&quot; 
height=&quot;1&quot; 
src=&quot;http://res1.blogblog.com/tracker/4887643299605448632-2059215242010135251?l=ooomarketing.blogspot.com&quot;
 /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content>
-               <author>
-                       <name>floeff</name>
-                       <email>[email protected]</email>
-                       <uri>http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/</uri>
-               </author>
-               <source>
-                       <title type="html">OpenOffice.org Marketing Blog</title>
-                       <subtitle type="html">News and interesting stories 
about OpenOffice.org and other open source solutions.</subtitle>
-                       <link rel="self" 
href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/>
-                       <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632</id>
-                       <updated>2009-05-06T17:00:35+00:00</updated>
+                       <updated>2009-05-06T23:00:35+00:00</updated>
                </source>
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 <a href="rss20.xml"><img src="rss2.gif" alt="Link to RSS 2 feed" /></a>
 </div>
 
-<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a 
href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: May 06, 2009 05:00 PM 
GMT</em></p>
+<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a 
href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: May 06, 2009 11:00 PM 
GMT</em></p>
 
 <h2>May 06, 2009</h2>
 <h3>
+<a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net"; title="Moved by Freedom - Powered by 
Standards » OOo Postings">
+Charles Schulz</a>&nbsp;:&nbsp;
+<a 
href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/05/06/odf-with-no-excuse/";>
+ODF with no excuse</a>
+</h3>
+<p>
+<p> Reports start to appear in the press about the ODF support quality enabled 
by the Service Pack 2 inside Microsoft Office 2007. I could say that I&#8217;m 
not surprised,<br />
+but I somewhat had also expected the contrary. Unfortunately it seems we have 
here a poor implementation of ODF. If further reports confirm it (and I have no 
serious doubt they will),<br />
+we will have the case of a monopolistic vendor messing up its own 
implementation of an open standard and have no viable excuse for doing so.</p>
+<p>If we are to believe several reports who all link to <a 
href="http://www.robweir.com/blog/2009/05/update-on-odf-spreadsheet.html";>Rob 
Weir&#8217;s own thorough review</a> ,<br />
+Microsoft has not only done a poor job implementing ODF, it has also ended up 
into a quite unique <em>endless loop phenomenon</em> . What this basically 
means is that in some instances<br />
+ODF documents created by Microsoft Office will only be readable and editable 
in&#8230; Microsoft Office. How was this possible? Apparently when you want to 
mess up something, you always find ways to do so.</p>
+<p>It would be very tempting to assume that if such a loop, as I call it, was 
possible, then the real technical flaw has been lying inside the 
standard&#8217;s specification for quite some time. And you know what?<br />
+This is obviously the case&#8230; otherwise it would not have been possible, 
or else, MS does not produce conforming ODF documents. But the worst part may 
not even be there.</p>
+<p>What we should perhaps realize today, is that one company charged of 
monopolistic abuse, after having imposed its own office document standard at 
the ISO (this one being itself under investigation),<br />
+is now trying to break the existing interoperability with the ODF standard. It 
would not be the first time Microsoft would have had this strategy. But it just 
reveals how little has changed inside this company.</p>
+<p>The intended effect, or should I say the risk, is that given a market share 
gained and maintained mostly by monopolistic practices and network effects, 
Microsoft Officer will lock its users in its very own,<br />
+incompatible and uninteroperable version of ODF. This is called <em>format 
filibustering</em> and it is an art Redmond has mastered over the years. I do 
urge Microsoft to reconsider these biased and unproductive practices.<br />
+They will only end up harming its customers. As for ODF, things are going to 
become very interesting, I think. This time, there is a real chance the market 
will not let Microsoft fool it again.<br />
+And what the market will ask for will be pure, unbiased ODF that can interact 
with various ODF-capable systems. This time, there will be no excuse.</p>
+<p class="akst_link"><a 
href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=124&akst_action=share-this"; 
title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_124" 
class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a>
+</p></p>
+<p>
+<em><a 
href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/05/06/odf-with-no-excuse/";>by
 Charles at May 06, 2009 05:12 PM GMT</a></em>
+</p>
+<br />
+<hr />
+<br />
+<h3>
 <a href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/"; title="OpenOffice.org Marketing 
Blog">
 OOo Marketeers</a>&nbsp;:&nbsp;
 <a 
href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2009/05/openofficeorg-linuxtag-partner-booth.html";>
@@ -490,20 +519,6 @@
 <br />
 <hr />
 <br />
-<h3>
-<a href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/"; title="OpenOffice.org Marketing 
Blog">
-OOo Marketeers</a>&nbsp;:&nbsp;
-<a 
href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2009/04/openofficeorg-special-at-heise-german.html";>
-OpenOffice.org Special at Heise (German)</a>
-</h3>
-<p>
-German publisher Heise just put online its OpenOffice.org Special, talking 
about extensions: <a 
href="http://www.heise.de/software/download/special/openoffice_lernt_dazu/57_1";>http://www.heise.de/software/download/special/openoffice_lernt_dazu/57_1</a><div
 class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" 
src="http://res1.blogblog.com/tracker/4887643299605448632-2059215242010135251?l=ooomarketing.blogspot.com";
 /></div></p>
-<p>
-<em><a 
href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2009/04/openofficeorg-special-at-heise-german.html";>by
 floeff ([email protected]) at April 18, 2009 05:58 PM BST</a></em>
-</p>
-<br />
-<hr />
-<br />
 <a id="disclaimer" name="disclaimer"></a>
 <p><em>Disclaimer: all views expressed on this page are those 
 of the individual contributors, and may not reflect the views of the 

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        <head>
                <title>Marketing Planet</title>
-               <dateModified>Wed, 06 May 2009 17:00:37 +0000</dateModified>
+               <dateModified>Wed, 06 May 2009 23:00:38 +0000</dateModified>
                <ownerName>Marketing Project</ownerName>
                <ownerEmail>[email protected]</ownerEmail>
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+<item 
rdf:about="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/05/06/odf-with-no-excuse/";>
+       <title>Charles Schulz: ODF with no excuse</title>
+       
<link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/05/06/odf-with-no-excuse/</link>
+       <content:encoded>&lt;p&gt; Reports start to appear in the press about 
the ODF support quality enabled by the Service Pack 2 inside Microsoft Office 
2007. I could say that I&amp;#8217;m not surprised,&lt;br /&gt;
+but I somewhat had also expected the contrary. Unfortunately it seems we have 
here a poor implementation of ODF. If further reports confirm it (and I have no 
serious doubt they will),&lt;br /&gt;
+we will have the case of a monopolistic vendor messing up its own 
implementation of an open standard and have no viable excuse for doing 
so.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;If we are to believe several reports who all link to &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://www.robweir.com/blog/2009/05/update-on-odf-spreadsheet.html&quot;&gt;Rob
 Weir&amp;#8217;s own thorough review&lt;/a&gt; ,&lt;br /&gt;
+Microsoft has not only done a poor job implementing ODF, it has also ended up 
into a quite unique &lt;em&gt;endless loop phenomenon&lt;/em&gt; . What this 
basically means is that in some instances&lt;br /&gt;
+ODF documents created by Microsoft Office will only be readable and editable 
in&amp;#8230; Microsoft Office. How was this possible? Apparently when you want 
to mess up something, you always find ways to do so.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;It would be very tempting to assume that if such a loop, as I call 
it, was possible, then the real technical flaw has been lying inside the 
standard&amp;#8217;s specification for quite some time. And you know 
what?&lt;br /&gt;
+This is obviously the case&amp;#8230; otherwise it would not have been 
possible, or else, MS does not produce conforming ODF documents. But the worst 
part may not even be there.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;What we should perhaps realize today, is that one company charged of 
monopolistic abuse, after having imposed its own office document standard at 
the ISO (this one being itself under investigation),&lt;br /&gt;
+is now trying to break the existing interoperability with the ODF standard. It 
would not be the first time Microsoft would have had this strategy. But it just 
reveals how little has changed inside this company.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The intended effect, or should I say the risk, is that given a market 
share gained and maintained mostly by monopolistic practices and network 
effects, Microsoft Officer will lock its users in its very own,&lt;br /&gt;
+incompatible and uninteroperable version of ODF. This is called 
&lt;em&gt;format filibustering&lt;/em&gt; and it is an art Redmond has mastered 
over the years. I do urge Microsoft to reconsider these biased and unproductive 
practices.&lt;br /&gt;
+They will only end up harming its customers. As for ODF, things are going to 
become very interesting, I think. This time, there is a real chance the market 
will not let Microsoft fool it again.&lt;br /&gt;
+And what the market will ask for will be pure, unbiased ODF that can interact 
with various ODF-capable systems. This time, there will be no excuse.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p class=&quot;akst_link&quot;&gt;&lt;a 
href=&quot;http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=124&amp;akst_action=share-this&quot;
 title=&quot;E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc.&quot; 
id=&quot;akst_link_124&quot; class=&quot;akst_share_link&quot; 
rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Share This&lt;/a&gt;
+&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
+       <dc:date>2009-05-06T17:12:09+00:00</dc:date>
+</item>
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-       <content:encoded>German publisher Heise just put online its 
OpenOffice.org Special, talking about extensions: &lt;a 
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        <description>Marketing Planet - 
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+       <title>Charles Schulz: ODF with no excuse</title>
+       
<guid>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/05/06/odf-with-no-excuse/</guid>
+       
<link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/05/06/odf-with-no-excuse/</link>
+       <description>&lt;p&gt; Reports start to appear in the press about the 
ODF support quality enabled by the Service Pack 2 inside Microsoft Office 2007. 
I could say that I&amp;#8217;m not surprised,&lt;br /&gt;
+but I somewhat had also expected the contrary. Unfortunately it seems we have 
here a poor implementation of ODF. If further reports confirm it (and I have no 
serious doubt they will),&lt;br /&gt;
+we will have the case of a monopolistic vendor messing up its own 
implementation of an open standard and have no viable excuse for doing 
so.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;If we are to believe several reports who all link to &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://www.robweir.com/blog/2009/05/update-on-odf-spreadsheet.html&quot;&gt;Rob
 Weir&amp;#8217;s own thorough review&lt;/a&gt; ,&lt;br /&gt;
+Microsoft has not only done a poor job implementing ODF, it has also ended up 
into a quite unique &lt;em&gt;endless loop phenomenon&lt;/em&gt; . What this 
basically means is that in some instances&lt;br /&gt;
+ODF documents created by Microsoft Office will only be readable and editable 
in&amp;#8230; Microsoft Office. How was this possible? Apparently when you want 
to mess up something, you always find ways to do so.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;It would be very tempting to assume that if such a loop, as I call 
it, was possible, then the real technical flaw has been lying inside the 
standard&amp;#8217;s specification for quite some time. And you know 
what?&lt;br /&gt;
+This is obviously the case&amp;#8230; otherwise it would not have been 
possible, or else, MS does not produce conforming ODF documents. But the worst 
part may not even be there.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;What we should perhaps realize today, is that one company charged of 
monopolistic abuse, after having imposed its own office document standard at 
the ISO (this one being itself under investigation),&lt;br /&gt;
+is now trying to break the existing interoperability with the ODF standard. It 
would not be the first time Microsoft would have had this strategy. But it just 
reveals how little has changed inside this company.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The intended effect, or should I say the risk, is that given a market 
share gained and maintained mostly by monopolistic practices and network 
effects, Microsoft Officer will lock its users in its very own,&lt;br /&gt;
+incompatible and uninteroperable version of ODF. This is called 
&lt;em&gt;format filibustering&lt;/em&gt; and it is an art Redmond has mastered 
over the years. I do urge Microsoft to reconsider these biased and unproductive 
practices.&lt;br /&gt;
+They will only end up harming its customers. As for ODF, things are going to 
become very interesting, I think. This time, there is a real chance the market 
will not let Microsoft fool it again.&lt;br /&gt;
+And what the market will ask for will be pure, unbiased ODF that can interact 
with various ODF-capable systems. This time, there will be no excuse.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p class=&quot;akst_link&quot;&gt;&lt;a 
href=&quot;http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=124&amp;akst_action=share-this&quot;
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rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Share This&lt;/a&gt;
+&lt;/p&gt;</description>
+       <pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 17:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>OOo Marketeers: OpenOffice.org LinuxTag partner booth</title>
        
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-       <description>German publisher Heise just put online its OpenOffice.org 
Special, talking about extensions: &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://www.heise.de/software/download/special/openoffice_lernt_dazu/57_1&quot;&gt;http://www.heise.de/software/download/special/openoffice_lernt_dazu/57_1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div
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-       <pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 17:58:54 +0000</pubDate>
-       <author>[email protected] (floeff)</author>
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