Hey, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: >> My take is that Novell is saved from patent litigation [from themselves and >> *only* their customers] while Microsoft gets a stooge to implement their >> 'open' >> office XML format so that they fight the adoption of ODF. > > :) > > I was wondering about M$'s data format rubbish too. But ODF and MDF > (Microsoft document format) are not mutually exclusive. How do you see > Novell fighting ODF? It's not theirs to control. On the other side, > Billy is now effectively selling Linux - what price would you be > prepared to pay for that? Implementing MDF in some open source app?
Sun resell Red Hat - it's pretty typical for solutions vendors to be able to resell other people's products. I just wonder about the credibility [?] that Novell may bring to the Office Open XML format, to the extent that the powers that be choose it over ODF. Who knows really what went on behind closed doors. Glynn
