Interesting news indeed.
"Martin LaMonica, Staff Writer,
Published: November 21, 2005
Microsoft intends to submit Office file formats to the European
standards body ECMA International, a move the company hopes will
allay concerns over the company's level of control over document
formats."
<http://www.nytimes.com/cnet/CNET_2100-1012_3-5965443.html>
An interesting point:
"As part of its standardization effort, Microsoft will change the
license in an effort to remove "virtually all the barriers" to having
developers work with the file formats."
"Redmonk analyst Stephen O'Grady said that, based on Microsoft's
previous ECMA standardization efforts, it's not clear that Microsoft
will relinquish control of the Office formats to other companies.
"He noted that Microsoft submitted its C# and Common Language Runtime
software to ECM, and both are used by the open-source project Mono.
But Mono "is eyed warily by Microsoft," he said.
'"It's interesting that Microsoft would feel compelled to make this
move but at the end of the day, it's still a format controlled by a
single commercial entity," O'Grady said."
The article is worth reading.
And consider the virtue in being open source.
Ciao,
Louis
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