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contributors to the open source community endorse OOXML

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tracyanne

Jul 23, 2007
5:22 AM EDT
Quoting:Other third parties have endorsed the standard, more recently contributors to the open source community, and those who appreciate the need for interoperability amongst mixed software solutions.


That would be Novell, Linspire and Xandros.
Abe

Jul 23, 2007
6:15 AM EDT
Quoting:more recently contributors to the open source community, and those who appreciate the need for interoperability amongst mixed software solutions.
One of the main reasons MS paid for those contracts
tracyanne

Jul 23, 2007
1:03 PM EDT 		Actually it was so that they could say that. If Microsoft was truely interested in interoperability they would use and contribute to genuine open standards.
Abe

Jul 24, 2007
5:55 AM EDT
Quoting:Actually it was so that they could say that.


That is what I meant. Thanks for the clarification. Notice I said "Paid" for those contracts not for anything else.

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