Microsoft Posts XML FAQ - and Thumbs Nose at Sun
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Microsoft has posted a Q&A that is mostly reassuring, and partly just plain false. The gratuitous and false statements about Sun, ODF and OASIS add a jarring note that represents at best a PR gaffe, and at worst an indication of the degree to which Ecma may allow Microsoft to write the script for the standards process to be conducted in its name.
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Microsoft has answered some important questions about its covenant not to sue implementers of its XML Reference Schema, and about how things will proceed at Ecma. But it also made some staggeringly false statements. Like this: "The record shows that there were almost no material changes to the OpenOffice specification from the time it was submitted to the time it was approved by the working group at OASIS. Sun timed the release of the OpenDocument standard in conjunction with the OpenOffice 2.0 release." Full Story |
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