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On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Italo Vignoli <italo.vignoli@gmail.com> wrote:
On 01/12/13 17:55, Robinson Tryon wrote:

In the case of OOXML, "Microsoft published the specs for XML file
formats in 2003 and licensed them to competitors" may be correct, but
I feel like that sentence is a bit misleading for ODF or other non-MS
XML document formats. Perhaps just dropping the sentence altogether
might be preferable.

The statement is not correct, by the way, because the format is not
licensed but is free to use based on a statement provided in 2008 at the
time of OOXML standardization.

Right -- in the case of OOXML, my understanding is that their "open
specification promise"[1] is tantamount to a (rather permissive)
license.

--R

[1] http://www.microsoft.com/openspecifications/en/us/programs/osp/default.aspx

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