On Jun 3, 2005, at 9:26 AM, Daniel Carrera wrote:
Ian Lynch wrote:
The Open Office.org community welcome Microsoft's recent
indication that
they are to adopt an XML/Zip format in their next version of their
office product. We invite Microsoft to support the international
standard for documents agreed by the OASIS committee of which they
are a
member. This international standard, agreed by the industry. is
designed to improve interoperability and to give customers greater
freedom of choice. We are confident that in order to be seen as a
responsible citizen in the IT community Microsoft will do the right
thing by supporting the agreed open standards.
It's tempting to say something like "We're glad Microsoft has
finally caught up to where OOo, Abiword and KOffice were 3 years
ago. That is, a time where each office suite had its own XML/Zip
format. We hope that Microsoft will now take another step into the
modern world by adopting ... [insert OASIS stuff]..."
I actually did, at the time of the MS O announcement: a journalist
called me up. It is one thing to make it easier for others to copy
you--this makes it ultimately easier to deploy your file format--but
quite another to employ open standards, which is of course what we
are all about.
Cheers,
Daniel.
best,
Louis
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