On Apr 2, 2008, at 8:12 PM, Peter Plug wrote: > > > Incorrect... ODF is an Open Standard for Documents... OOXML is a > Standard for Documents (Guess what the missing word is) >
and that's the part where i'm confused... my understanding is an ISO certification means an "open" standard everyone can agree upon to use because it is... well open. > > > doesn't it mean therefore that OpenOffice, Google Docs, iWork and > everybody else now can now parse Microsoft Office formats much better? > > Not quite.. The OOXML spec is deliberately designed to be difficult > to implement unless you are a big software company based in > redmond. Actually, there is still no existing implementation of > OOXML in any platform > interesting. > > > That OO and the rest have no excuse anymore not to be able to render > properly data from .doc, xls, .ppt to say their own native file > formats? > > Again, not quite.. the published specifications are incomplete. The > legal rights to use are unclear hmmm. unless... say you pay Redmond an extravagant amount of money, i suppose. > > > and if say I (or anybody else for that matter) would like to write an > App that reads/writes MSOffice format... i can now do so without any > problem or worry the big bad wolf from redmond would rain holy hell on > my house because they've has "opened" the standard up. that the > landscape is now fair game for every developer in the world. > > Read more about the standard and you will see that the picture you > described is what MS wants the rest of the world to believe... The > real picture is very different from what you described above > > is this correct? > > No... > > By the way, Congratulations to Microsoft for destroying the > reputation of ISO as an organization, the standardization process, > and the Philippine Bureau of Standards as well. I think 80 million > Filipinos deserve a much more open and free document format than > what ISO just approved. > well based on your answers, then clearly, this latest move by ISO is pure crap. Guess Redmond deserves an award for this. Thanks for the info. appreciate it. ------------------ Cocoy "People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware." --Alan Kay _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
