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- method9455, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13Less fragmentation for open source is a good thing. Too many Linux distros, too many programs that do exactly the same thing (without ever getting one that is exceptional). I realize open source = choice and specialization, but if people compromised a bit more often and forked less, it would be good. This is good news, along with Compiz + Beryl coming back together. Now if only a few distros would start joining .......
- NerveBand, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11There was a Chinese Office format?
WTF? - daradib, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I agree with you. I don't know much about the Chinese office format (there was one?), but it would be good to combine because it would gain ODF more ground. There's no need for multiple open formats (though I won't change to Microsoft Office XML). It sounds like a good idea, how hard is it to do?
- SuperSloth, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Obviously, the idea is to establish ODF as the de facto standard in China before MS Office takes root. Integrating ODF with an already favored format is an idea way to, well, embrace and extend.
Not that I think Sun is trying to be evil here (it's difficult with an open standard) but their inspiration for doing this is rather transparent. - m3sm3r, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Yes, the Chinese Office Format interjects party slogans in random intervals throughout the document.
- superm401, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3This would presumably be for a new version of the ODF standard. They wouldn't just make undocumented changes to OpenOffice.org . That in mind, it is technically embrace and extend, but not embrace, extend, and extinguish (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace%2C_extend_and_extinguish). Sun has no interest in destroying ODF or making it proprietary, unlike MS which definitely has a reason to make OOXML proprietary.
- jjesusfreak01, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2To annoy their loyal users, is that the motive?
- Spr0k3t, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Anyway ODF has a chance to squeeze the living daylights out of OOXML, I'm all for it.
- Atomic1fire, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2This will hurt Microsoft ether way
Chinas billion people
>us - shawnanigans, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Correction, he should drive his Corevette around, like the Counthash in GTA 1.
- mancat, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2We're on digg, so, that's obviously untrue...
- joe90210, on 10/12/2007, -8/+4anyone who's followed ODF's history knows that it's a horribly incomplete standard, the fact that they're now desperatly running around with 2-3 different committies trying to add to it and scrambling to fill that gap by merging with other formats is not surprising.
- MrUnderbridge, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2Why can't they just learn to write in English like everyone else?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2Umm, wouldn't the chinese format be in Mandrin? As in, not compatible with english.
- rebopper, on 10/12/2007, -9/+3Go drive your Corvette around somewhere. We're kinda busy.
- corevette, on 10/12/2007, -12/+4kind of off topic...but google docs spreadsheets now can create charts from your spreadsheet...
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