Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on October 07, 2005 09:43 PM
Massachussetts has decided on an International Document Format Standard, created by the OASIS Group.
Even Microsoft Corp. is aprt of the OASIS Group.
So, if the biggest document-generating vendor (Microsoft), plus its competition plus OpenSource companies are part of OASIS, and all of them have agreen on the Open Document Format, well, I say that everybody should be happy.
International Standards are waaaaaay different from "political interests of a few"
Maybe you don't remember, but about 10 years ago, several companies were trying to push their own propietary networking protocols
In the end, open standards networking protocols made Internet and open conenctivity among ALL hardware vendors a reality.
The selection of Open Standards ALWAYS benefits the majority.
Closed approach (IPX, TokenRing,<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.doc,<nobr> <wbr></nobr>...) ONLY benefits the creators of such closed protocols/formats.
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Re:People's Department of Software
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on October 07, 2005 09:43 PMEven Microsoft Corp. is aprt of the OASIS Group.
So, if the biggest document-generating vendor (Microsoft), plus its competition plus OpenSource companies are part of OASIS, and all of them have agreen on the Open Document Format, well, I say that everybody should be happy.
International Standards are waaaaaay different from "political interests of a few"
Maybe you don't remember, but about 10 years ago, several companies were trying to push their own propietary networking protocols
In the end, open standards networking protocols made Internet and open conenctivity among ALL hardware vendors a reality.
The selection of Open Standards ALWAYS benefits the majority.
Closed approach (IPX, TokenRing,<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.doc,<nobr> <wbr></nobr>...) ONLY benefits the creators of such closed protocols/formats.
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