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Shuttleworth: Emerging consensus in favour of a unified document format standard?Shuttleworth: Emerging consensus in favour of a unified document format standard?Posted Aug 14, 2007 17:42 UTC (Tue) by rgmoore (✭ supporter ✭, #75)In reply to: Shuttleworth: Emerging consensus in favour of a unified document format standard? by cpm Parent article: Shuttleworth: Emerging consensus in favour of a unified document format standard?
I think the history of MS is pretty clear on such issues, if at first they don't succeed in getting their way, they just manipulate the process until they do get their way. -Or- they retreat from the field and try again another day. Or the may do something similar to what happened with HTML. They'll claim that they're adopting ODF, but they'll add a ton of undocumented proprietary extensions without going through the normal process for updating the standard. When challenged, they'll claim the extensions are needed to add features from Office that the standard doesn't support, and argue that they had to add them that way because the official change process can't keep up with the pace of development.
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Shuttleworth: Emerging consensus in favour of a unified document format standard? Posted Aug 15, 2007 21:50 UTC (Wed) by horen (subscriber, #2514) [Link] Or the may do something similar to what happened with HTML. They'll claim that they're adopting ODF, but they'll add a ton of undocumented proprietary extensions without going through the normal process for updating the standard. When challenged, they'll claim the extensions are needed to add features from Office that the standard doesn't support, and argue that they had to add them that way because the official change process can't keep up with the pace of development.+1 What's more, this is exactly what Micro$oft did with their competitors, back in the early days of Windows (late-1980s/early-to-mid-1990s). "Undocumented proprietary extensions" and/or undocumented system-calls, etc., were what prevented many ISVs from successfully selling their MS Windows-based software, and then Micro$oft would buy-'em-out for a song.
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