On Nov 28, 2005, at 12:39 AM, Robert Citek wrote: > Apparently, Microsoft is opening up it's XML for Office, calling it > OpenXML. To me and a few others I know, that sounds like a Good Thing > (TM). But this e-week article claims that OpenXML may not really be > "Open": > > http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1892155,00.asp
As a follow-up, "Mass. Flips, Sides With Microsoft" : http://www.techweb.com/wire/ebiz/174402060 “The Commonwealth is very pleased with Microsoft’s progress in creating an open document format,” said the state’s Administration and Finance (A&F) Secretary Tom Trimarco in a short statement on Thanksgiving eve. “If Microsoft follows through as planned, we are optimistic that Office Open XML will meet our new standards for acceptable open formats.” Regards, - Robert http://www.cwelug.org/downloads Help others get OpenSource software. Distribute FLOSS for Windows, Linux, *BSD, and MacOS X with BitTorrent _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
