Hello Soren, Søren Thing Pedersen a écrit : > > Timeline in brief: > > 1) "The migration costs! Wait and time will solve everything." > > 2) "There is no problem with document standards. The real problem is > backend system to system integration (SOA)." > > 3) "Microsoft Office Open XML is also an open standard. Please do no > discriminate our open standard." > > 4) "ODF does not guarantee complete compatibility with the billions of > millions of existing MSO documents" > > 5) "We support open standards - please use ours" > > And of course various replays from the Massachusetts case. Ah, yes. The good ol' stuff over and over again. Are you in contact with the ODF Alliance (www.odfalliance.org)? They/We did a good job writing both private and public letters to the french administration (OpenOffice.org is a member of this Alliance). You could use the content that is on the Alliance's site. > > I could comment on each of these but I guess it is obvious that MS is > trying to move the focus of the discussion to anything but the core; > Why is MS isolating itself instead of participating in open > standardization processes and supporting vendor independent open > standards? That's the 1 billion dollar question, I guess. But I don't think they will be able to carry on such an attitude for a long time. And now with Bill Gates on the leave they are getting some really tough internal pressure and struggle.
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