[odf-discuss] Ecma Approves Office Open XML

[Thomas Zander]

On Saturday 09 December 2006 17:54, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-08-12 at 19:25 -0500, Carlos Moffat wrote:
> > As for having to ISO standards for the same thing, I thought we had
> > discussed this already and the answer is: this is no problem at all.
>
> I thought the answer was somewhere in the middle: "it's not disallowed,
> but it's harder" because you have to prove that there really is a need
> for another standard to cover the same thing.

Playing devils advocate;
ODF does not have any way to encode formulas in spreadsheets, hence it does 
not work for a large percentage of the MSOffice userbase.
That userbase will 'never' be able to switch to ODF as is, and therefor we 
need something for those users.
END devils advocate.

I'm not sure how technical these ISO people are; but the point that MOOX is 
very feature complete (its a mess, but it is feature complete) and ODF is not 
yet, may just be enough.

In other words; lets assume the worst and get working on all strategies 
possible.
-- 
Thomas Zander
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