John: (01)
Can't argue with any of that (below). I actually participate in the ODF as
Adobe's rep. It has been eye opening. (02)
Within Adobe, I was also one of the proponents to get PDF into ISO. Open
standards are the way we all need to go. (03)
I had heard that MS did support some open source project to convert ODF into
OOXML but don't think this will be their forte. I personally see OOXML
being run at by many companies now - Buzzword, OO and SO, iWork (for Mac)
and more. (04)
Duane (05)
On 10/21/07 12:59 PM, "John F. Sowa" <sowa@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: (06)
> Duane and Peter,
>
> I should have been more precise in making the point.
>
> I realize that MSFT has participated in OASIS, but
> they did not adopt the open standard or participate
> in getting whatever features they needed into it.
>
> There is nothing wrong with a company producing their
> own version for compatibility with their own legacy
> systems. But they did not support the OASIS standard
> on an equal footing.
>
> Furthermore, MSFT tried to get their proprietary version
> made into a standard -- despite the fact that it is bloated
> with garbage designed to support arcane internals of MS
> Office.
>
> When it became clear that nobody else had any interest
> in supporting the MS version, they "persuaded" [a polite
> euphemism] a large number of countries to become voting
> members of OASIS in order to stuff the ballot box in
> favor of the MS version. Despite that effort, the MS
> version was rejected as an OASIS standards project.
>
> And now, OASIS is suffering from a bloated roster of
> voting members who have stopped participating. As a
> result, they can't get a quorum for doing other business
> in the overstuffed committees.
>
> John
>
>
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