Michael Van Canneyt ha scritto:
On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, Giuliano Colla wrote:
Michael Van Canneyt ha scritto:
On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, Razvan Adrian Bogdan wrote:
Do you think this is a good initiative ?
Would it be in the community interest to standardize Office formats as ISO
?
http://www.noooxml.org/petition
If you look at it, you'll see that many FPC devels have signed it already.
The idea is that there is already a ISO standard (the OpenOffice one) and
that there should be only 1 standard. There is no need for a second one.
M$ just tries to avoid having to write a import/export routine by
registering their own format as a standard.
The revers of the coin is: how can it be registered as an ISO standard and
remain proprietary at the same time?
Or I'm missing a point?
Why have 2 standards ?
Because one is good, and one allows BG to make some extra money to buy
his bread and butter.
But if M$ request of standardizing their shitty thing can be used to
show that they can't have it both ways, then why not to take the
opportunity?
However I signed the petition, just to stay on the safe side.
Giuliano
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Giuliano Colla
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