Erosion of trust [LWN.net]

Erosion of trust

Posted Nov 26, 2007 11:53 UTC (Mon) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501)
In reply to: Erosion of trust by jdub
Parent article: The GNOME Foundation on OOXML

How much is Microsoft actually commited to follow the changes in the OOXML standard? IIRC
there has been actually some statements of Microsoft seniors of the reverse.

If that is the case, interoperability with ISO-OOXML does not imply interoperability with
MS-Office 2007 (or later).

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Erosion of trust

Posted Nov 26, 2007 12:16 UTC (Mon) by jdub (subscriber, #27) [Link]

How much is Microsoft actually commited to follow the changes in the OOXML standard? IIRC there has been actually some statements of Microsoft seniors of the reverse.

Yeah, they've already revealed some weaselly intentions on that front. I'm not too worried about that, we've fought a much tougher interoperability battle with them over the binary formats, but this time we'll be better prepared.

It will also be damaging for them to not be standards compliant (with their own standard!) from a government perspective, so we as a community can hold their feet to the fire there as well.

Note that I'm not suggesting that our participation in TC45-M solves everything, it's just another front in a much larger battle... of which the ultimate goal is Software Freedom!