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Rebuttal to Rob Weir on a So-called ‘OpenDocument Format Civil War’

Posted by Sander_Marechal on · 4 comments
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Rob Weir of IBM has just posted a lengthy reply to concerns raised by Marbux and Gary Edwards (OpenDocument Foundation). There is so much to be said to not only complement but also correct Rob’s assessment, but here we shall only refer to the parts which are associated with Novell and the other relationships Microsoft has formed in order to combat ODF adoption and make ODF a second-class citizen.

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Comments (4)

dinotrac ·
Rob Weir's original post is far more thoughtful and informative than Roy's cockeyed rant.

I loved his paragraph on OOXML saying, essentially, that it is simply a stopgap rush job and that he doesn't believe Microsoft really intends to use it as a foundation for the future because it is so badly engineered.

Logical, sensible, but reflects his tenure IBM, a place that makes some effort not to ride bad engineering. I would never presume Microsoft will shy away from something simply because it is a steaming pile of crap.
Sander_Marechal Story submitter ·
Quoting:Rob Weir's original post is far more thoughtful and informative than Roy's cockeyed rant.


Agreed. I find the quality of Roy's posts decreasing in quality lately. But hey, I just post them as I find them :-)
dinotrac ·
>Agreed.

Wow!! We gotta find more of those kinds of things.
bigg ·
> I find the quality of Roy's posts decreasing in quality lately.

Is that possible?

Must be 'interesting' living your entire life to show the evils of one business deal.

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