For those who blindly refuse to see the value in multiple standards: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/WguwcBNRVIE/Microsoft-Patents-XML-Word-Processing-Documents
[Embrace. Extend. Patent. On Tuesday, Microsoft was granted US Patent No. 7,571,169 for its 'invention' of the Word-processing document stored in a single XML file that may be manipulated by applications that understand XML. Presumably developers are protected by Microsoft's 'covenant not to sue,'] Good, eh? There's more: [....the biggest question raised by this patent is: How in the world was it granted in light of the 40-year history of document markup languages? Next thing you know, the USPTO will give Microsoft a patent for Providing Emergency Data in XML format. Oops, too late."] On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 2:45 AM, Anand Babu Periasamy <[email protected]> wrote: > Pranesh Prakash wrote: > >> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 20:02, jtd<[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Only an idiot will commit a folly of proposing and approving multiple >>> standards when there exists an opportunity of avoiding it. >>> >> >> That assumes that there are costs involved in multiple standards, >> which is what I'm seeking to question (not necessarily to refute). My >> question is mainly about concurrent usage of multiple open standards >> when the costs incurred are questionable (i.e., it is highly unlikely >> that there will come a situation where a program like OpenOffice.org >> will stop supporting .txt files). Sometimes it is more convenient to >> use .txt while at other times .odt is more convenient (at least at a >> personal level, as I consider things like file size / support for >> formatting / ease of opening for others, etc.). What would be the >> arguments against such concurrent use? >> > > [ RESENDING IT.. NOT SURE IF MY PREVIOUS POST REACHED ] > > > We should compare Unix .txt and MS-DOS .txt standards for Text files. > Similarly, Open Document Format and Office Open XML for Office documents. > > We all know why Office Open XML does not qualify as a standard and its > incompleteness makes it impossible to operate on their document format. > OpenOffice support for MS Office documents is a hack. It is far from > complete. > > It does not make sense to promote multiple standards for same purpose. > > -- > Anand Babu Periasamy > GPG Key ID: 0x62E15A31 > Blog [http://unlocksmith.org] > GlusterFS [http://www.gluster.org] > GNU/Linux [http://www.gnu.org] > > _______________________________________________ > network mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in > -- Vickram http://communicall.wordpress.com
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