On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 08:54 +0100, Claus Agerskov wrote: > No - the beginning of the end for closed documents started with the future > development of the OpenOffice.org 1.0 XML format moved to the independent > standardization organization OASIS in December 2003 or the release of > OpenDocument 1.0 in May 2005. > > Microsoft would never had picked the "open" way if they wasn't under > pressure from OpenDocument as a future open ISO standard.
And why choose to produce a different standard for the sake of it if they don't intend to use it to lock people in at some time in the future? OOo marketing needs to ensure people understand two things very clearly 1. MS did not initiate open file formats, OOo did 2. MS have shown they are not trustworthy in these matters time and tiome again. They say one thing and do another or at the last minute make minor changes that have major effect hafter milking the PR. We need to challenge that every step of the way. -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMS Ltd --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
