Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 129.240.235.122]
on December 20, 2007 02:45 PM
"We are deeply concerned that abuse of the standards process is eroding public trust in the value and independence of international standards. Both ODF and OOXML are very heavily influenced by their implementation heritage, neither are likely to deliver the "one true office format", and both communities have — in their own way — played a role in this erosion of trust."
Hold on: OOXML isn't a real standard at all! And although one can criticise, say, IBM for championing ODF, one must recall that the format doesn't even originate from one of their own products: it's from one of their competitors! This is in stark contrast to Microsoft's blatant vote buying and astroturfing in ISO circles. To say that there's been an "erosion of trust" caused by both communities (or rather, one community and Microsoft) is blurring the truth enough that you'd see more of the picture by looking away. It's like saying, "Those guys have been naughty, so I guess everyone must have been equally naughty." Why not just close your eyes and make stuff up?!
Even Novell have been involved in OpenOffice, although one gets the impression that there's some string pulling going on with respect to Microsoft technologies. Stuff that Novell has a stake in has to echo the company strategy, so this means placing ODF and OOXML on some dubious equal footing in order to *not* make Novell's "interoperability solutions" look like the sale of credibility to Microsoft that such things are.
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 129.240.235.122] on December 20, 2007 02:45 PMHold on: OOXML isn't a real standard at all! And although one can criticise, say, IBM for championing ODF, one must recall that the format doesn't even originate from one of their own products: it's from one of their competitors! This is in stark contrast to Microsoft's blatant vote buying and astroturfing in ISO circles. To say that there's been an "erosion of trust" caused by both communities (or rather, one community and Microsoft) is blurring the truth enough that you'd see more of the picture by looking away. It's like saying, "Those guys have been naughty, so I guess everyone must have been equally naughty." Why not just close your eyes and make stuff up?!
Even Novell have been involved in OpenOffice, although one gets the impression that there's some string pulling going on with respect to Microsoft technologies. Stuff that Novell has a stake in has to echo the company strategy, so this means placing ODF and OOXML on some dubious equal footing in order to *not* make Novell's "interoperability solutions" look like the sale of credibility to Microsoft that such things are.
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