[SLE] OpenDocument vs. MS Open XML

From: Steven T. Hatton (hattons_at_globalsymmetry.com)
Date: 11/29/05

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    <quote url="http://www.techworld.com/networking/news/index.cfm?NewsID=4875">

    29 November 2005
    Sun urges US state to reject Microsoft open format

    By Elizabeth Montalbano, IDG News Service

    Sun has urged the state of Massachusetts to rethink its opinion that
    Microsoft's Open XML meets the acceptable parameters for an open format

    In a letter signed by the director of corporate standards for Sun, Carl
    Cargill, the company asked the state to keep in mind the reasons for its
    previous commitment to the Open Document Format for Office Applications
    (OpenDocument) specification. ...

    </quote>

    My own opinion is that both of these specification are a bad use of XML.
    Nonetheless, they seem to provided what the masses want in a word processor.
    [*]

    If I'm not mistaken, the OpenDocument specification is the one OO is being
    built to. It was also created from the ground up with the intention of being
    an open standard. If Microsoft can promulgate their "standard" over another
    candidate such as OpenDocument, that would mean all other office software
    producers will be forced to play catchup with Microsoft, while Microsoft can
    "adapt" the new standard for nothing. It seems to me, since Microsoft has
    the largest market capitalization of any company in history, they are in a
    much better position to pay for the modification required in order to conform
    to something like OpenDocument.

    The only argument which might favor MS Open(sic) XML is some possible
    technical superiority. If MS Office is any indication, such superiority does
    not exist.

    [*]“Uncle Cosmo, why do they call this a word. processor?” “It’s simple,
    Skyler. You’ve seen what food. processors do to food, right?”
    www.lyx.org 

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