Woot! OOXML nogo!

[Bill McGonigle]

On Sep 4, 2007, at 14:22, Christopher Chisholm wrote:

> I guess MS will have to start adding support for ODT ;)

They still have the ECMA endorsement, just not ISO.  That might be  
'good enough' for some jurisdictions.

> Have they gone
> after OpenOffice yet?  It seems odd that they wouldn't try to sue them
> in to the ground.

Buying standards bodies was probably the cheaper rout.  Now they have  
the option of getting some of the 'No, with comments' votes to be  
'Yes''s, IIRC.  'All' they have to do is to get rid of the non-open  
parts of the standard.  At that point, I think most of the objectors  
stop shouting.

It's left as an exercise for the reader to determine whether  
Microsoft is more likely to embrace openness or order a battalion of  
its lawyers to descend on Billerica.

-Bill

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