tuxdeluxe.org— Samba's Jeremy Allison on Microsoft, OOXML, ISO, and the slippery nature of standards when they are owned by one company
Sep 15, 2007View in Crawl 4
The only way I would endorse OOXML is if it truly was an open medium devoid of any patents and free to use for any interested party in application development. For now, ODF fits that bill perfectly. The first thing ECMA needs to remove from the definitions: anything relating to the binary formats Microsoft put out prior to their not-so-open XML whitesheet. I think removing the binary definitions would drop the number of pages drastically.
in?san?i?ty (n-sn-t)n. pl. in?san?i?ties1. Persistent mental disorder or derangement. No longer in scientific use.2. Lawa. Unsoundness of mind sufficient in the judgment of a civil court to render a person unfit to maintain a contractual or other legal relationship or to warrant commitment to a mental health facility.b. In most criminal jurisdictions, a degree of mental malfunctioning sufficient to relieve the accused of legal responsibility for the act committed.3.a. Extreme foolishness; folly.b. Something that is extremely foolish.
OK everybody wait for the next episode. If there is one. When mighty Big Blue decide what they're going to do with Microsoft now that SCO went t**s up.
spr0k3tSep 16, 2007
One word: McBrideI R TEH WINX!
spr0k3tSep 16, 2007
The only way I would endorse OOXML is if it truly was an open medium devoid of any patents and free to use for any interested party in application development. For now, ODF fits that bill perfectly. The first thing ECMA needs to remove from the definitions: anything relating to the binary formats Microsoft put out prior to their not-so-open XML whitesheet. I think removing the binary definitions would drop the number of pages drastically.
jggrSep 16, 2007
in?san?i?ty (n-sn-t)n. pl. in?san?i?ties1. Persistent mental disorder or derangement. No longer in scientific use.2. Lawa. Unsoundness of mind sufficient in the judgment of a civil court to render a person unfit to maintain a contractual or other legal relationship or to warrant commitment to a mental health facility.b. In most criminal jurisdictions, a degree of mental malfunctioning sufficient to relieve the accused of legal responsibility for the act committed.3.a. Extreme foolishness; folly.b. Something that is extremely foolish.
kugoSep 16, 2007
OK everybody wait for the next episode. If there is one. When mighty Big Blue decide what they're going to do with Microsoft now that SCO went t**s up.
ilgazSep 17, 2007
Big Blue offers their coders to OpenOffice for free, I think they already decided.