On Fri, 03 Nov 2006 22:02, 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
Yep - stage four of Gandhi-tanga: then you win. > prepared to pay for that? Implementing MDF in some open source app? I seriously doubt though, that Microsoft will be able to reimplement the full scope of their "Open" XML anywhere else; and I doubt they're even interested. It took a bit of badgering (from others and a little bit from me) to get them to change their document controls from ActiveX by default, to something much more workable. > > Time will tell... > > Volker -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish ------------- Mau ki ana, he aha te mea nui? You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku ki ana, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people." ------------- notcatweazle.wordpress.com - Some unmagical musings
