On Saturday 29 September 2007 23:44:30 Jim Hartley wrote: > No, M$ does not want to support EVERY FILE FORMAT on the planet, > only those they can control and change when it suits their > purposes. OOXML was DELIBERATELY written with with ambiguities > and vague descriptions so that if someone else DOES try to > implement it M$ has lots of room to say, "Oh, no, you're wrong. > What we MEANT was ..." > > All the rest of the file formats, the ones M$ can't control, they > will try to undermine by foisting their own not-quite-standard > versions on the public. Look at the mess they made of web pages > with Internet Exploder and all its non-standard HTML. They tried > to do it to Java, too, but they didn't get away with that one. > > Micro$oft's motto: "If we can't control it, then mess it up so > nobody else can use it either. And bring out a new incompatible > version every year!" > > Jim Hartley > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Saturday 29 September 2007 23:03:41 Fred A. Miller wrote: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>> On Saturday 29 September 2007 18:48:50 S. A. Gnezdov wrote: > >>>> Windows can't support every file format in > >>>> the planet. > >>> > >>> But that is exactly what Microsoft is trying to do. > >> > >> NOT hardly. ONLY if they're put into a very tight bind do they > >> even attempt it. > >> > >> Fred > > > > And just how do you know they aren't. Just look at their track > > record. > > > > If they don't want to do exactly what I said they would not be > > trying to get OOXML ISO approved. What would be the point? We > > already have an ISO approved OpenDocument Format. We do we need > > two? > > > > Microsoft does not want to cooperate with other software > > manufactures. Look at all the things we have two of and the > > ones that Microsoft made only work on Microsoft but the others > > work on all OSs. Does it look like Microsoft is trying to work > > with the rest of the software manufactures? Why is Microsoft > > the only one that is different? Everyone else uses the > > established standards. Microsoft creates their own. > > > > So, what were you saying? I don't think any one heard you.
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