http://www.michaeldolan.com/1199 Linux, Law, Open Source, and a Comedy of Errors Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:57:38 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.michaeldolan.com/1199/comment-page-1#comment-20140 Matija "hook" Šuklje Wed, 28 May 2008 22:04:20 +0000 http://www.michaeldolan.com/?p=1199#comment-20140 We'll see what happens ...in any case I'm not too optimistic about OOXML, although I wish I had reason to be. We’ll see what happens …in any case I’m not too optimistic about OOXML, although I wish I had reason to be.

]]> http://www.michaeldolan.com/1199/comment-page-1#comment-19803 Brian Tue, 27 May 2008 18:42:58 +0000 http://www.michaeldolan.com/?p=1199#comment-19803 Interesting thought. Even if it doesn't see the light of day, it certainly has been quite a distraction - whether due to ineptitude when dealing with a real standards body (Microsoft's other office "standards" are mainly de facto) or malice (assuming many won't bother to read a 6,000+ page spec), or anything in between, the end result is much the same: the community is having to spend otherwise worthwhile effort fighting battles that it shouldn't need to. Interesting thought. Even if it doesn’t see the light of day, it certainly has been quite a distraction – whether due to ineptitude when dealing with a real standards body (Microsoft’s other office “standards” are mainly de facto) or malice (assuming many won’t bother to read a 6,000+ page spec), or anything in between, the end result is much the same: the community is having to spend otherwise worthwhile effort fighting battles that it shouldn’t need to.

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