not good news for ODF :(

[Bill McGonigle]

On Aug 18, 2008, at 11:20, Michael Pelletier wrote:

> With OOXML an ISO standard, it should now be possible to write an  
> editor
> that is absolutely 100% compatible with Office 2007 documents, with  
> no pesky
> compatability or rendering quirks, right?

http://blog.bfccomputing.com/articles/2007/03/06/autospacelikeword95

On Aug 18, 2008, at 13:02, Ted Roche wrote:
> That the process was so bald-faced, arrogant and obviously flawed  
> has to
> make anyone who would care about such criteria question what Microsoft
> was so desperate to accomplish that they would destroy the very  
> approval
> they were seeking. In gaining their standard, they destroyed the
> credibility of the process that created it. How dumb is that?

Open standards aren't good for Microsoft.  Also, Microsoft stood to  
lose a bunch of government contracts in the political climate a  
couple years back due to closed formats in public documents and its  
poor record of servicing those formats, plus any halo effect that  
governments switching might have had.

So Microsoft gets to deal a blow to open standards while cementing  
its market position.  What's not to love?  That reminds me, I need to  
dump all my GNOME (heavily based on .NET now).

-Bill

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