Ian,
Ian Lynch wrote:
On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 09:52 +0100, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann - Software
Engineer - Sun Microsystems wrote:
This project will increase the visibility of OOo through the ODF and
will strengthen the position of the OOo community as the experts in ODF.
Thus, a big +1 from me.
There is also a downside to this in that the real benefit of ODF over MS
OOXML is that its seen to be multi-application. If the image is
projected that ODF is effectively controlled by OpenOffice.org (or
worse, Sun) and not OASIS, it will significantly weaken that advantage.
First of all, ODF is of cause controlled by OASIS, and the proposal does
not aim to change that. What we are proposing is create a toolkit that
allows the creation and processing of ODF documents, and that simplifies
the use of ODF in other applications. This toolkit actually would just
be another ODF implementation (or product, to be more precise, because
the toolkit will share its code with OOo).
At the current state of play in the politics I'd play up the fact that
there is expertise in ODF in many applications and communities,
particularly when talking to governments.
You are absolutely right. There is of cause expertise in ODF in many
other applications and communities, too.
Ian
Best regards
Michael
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