Re: [us-marketing] European IT authorities want better OOXML in Libre/OpenOffice

One issue I have is that they claim MSO's format is the International 
Standard.  ODF was the only International Standard for office document 
formats till MSO bought their way into making a dual standard instead of 
the single one.  That was a big stink and, as far as I remember, caused 
a few legal investigations.  The ISO was to be a single standard, with 
ODF being voted as THE standard for office document formats.  Then MS 
came along and said unfair, unfair.  Our formats are most popular.  When 
they had to give a full accounting for documentation for their OOXML 
formats, it took teeth-pulling to get it.  Then it came out that if the 
"independent" committee that would be in control of that format, then 
MSO would not fully support it.  They had to be in full control, not 
others.  That was against the rules for ISO status, as far as I am 
concerned.  SO to say OOXML is the ISO over ODF, that is not true.  ODF 
became the ISO instead of OOXML.  Then MS did its thing and "forced" 
[ie. bought] the dual standard.  So you cannot say that ODF is not the 
ISO for office documents, and OOXML is.  ODF was voted to be that, so it 
is that.  You cannot erase the records of the meetings and the records 
of the voting.  This article has all the stink of MS behind it.  If it 
stinks like MS, MS must be there somewhere.

AS FOR the group being created to work on better document support for 
OOXML, I wonder where they got the FULL documentation for that format.  
MS did not release it fully, according to the articles I read.  MS will 
not release this type of document when ordered to by the European 
Government Judges, so why would they do it freely and completely?  MS 
would never release this documentation since they want you to buy their 
products for you to be able to use/view their documents properly.

If a group of developers want to take the time and reverse engineer the 
OOXML format, like others did for DOC and the other MSO formats, I am 
glad of their work.  Hopefully their work will be fully open-source so 
packages like OOo and LO can use it when their work is ready to use.  
What "Apache License 2.0" actually means could make or break LO's 
ability to use it.  Also, when they write the code, will it be in JAVA 
or Python?  LO is moving away from JAVA so JAVA-only code for this OOXML 
support would be going backwards.


On 12/15/2011 07:11 AM, Daniel A. Rodriguez wrote:
> H-Online has published[1] such article, what do you think about?
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> [1] 
> http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/European-IT-authorities-want-better-OOXML-in-Libre-OpenOffice-1395595.html
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