FWIW, I've made the suggestion on Brian Jones' (MS's Office XML guru - or is that Goo Roo? ;) blog that if Microsoft _really_ and _truly_ wants people to make use of their file format, they'd publish an Office12 XML file reader/writer/converter in source code form on Sourceforge under the MS Permissive or Community License, and get ready for massive customer feedback and enhancements, etc.
Dreams are free ... ;) Wesley Parish On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 21:20, yuri wrote: > I've heard it discussed elsewhere that even if they "open" the xml > schema thingy, it'll still have large chunks of proprietary binary > data embedded in the files. > > On 29/11/05, dave wrote: > > Just read tonight an article in the Computerworld where MS are going to > > put their document formats up for ISO recognition (due to the > > Massachusetts city council saying they want their documents to be based > > on open standards). > > > > thus the formats of documents will be much more open a other developers > > wil be able to create and access these with less problems than in the > > past. And maybe this will see true compatibility with MS document formats > > with open office in the future. > > > > Me thinks that open/free standards have just won another battle against > > the monolith. > > > > And well really it could reduce reliance on the MS office suite too for > > small medium business. > > -- > ** WARNING to mailing list repliers ** > Gmail over-rides "Reply-To:" field. Check your "To:" address before > sending reply to this post. -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish ----- Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
