[odf-discuss] Microsoft and Novell cooperate on document formats

[Lars D. Noodén]

Not to me.  Which part are you thinking of?  There seems to be no 
assurance that OOo can gain independent use of MOOX, or without strings 
develop OOo for MOOX.

The productivity suite monopoly is currently maintained largely through 
the format.  OOo supporting that format won't loosen the grip.  If the 
support is less than perfect, then you also have the lost work that could 
have been spent on something productive instead.

I'll take a second look, but it seems like he might be heading down the 
same naïve path as d'Icaza.

-Lars

PS.  It's a blog so it's his opinion, but it does seem a bit misleading to 
imply there that *perception* of unfair business practice exists in and of 
itself rather than stemming from a long history of actually carrying out 
unfair business practices.

Lars Noodén
 	Ensure access to your data in the future
 	http://opendocumentfellowship.org/about_us/contribute

On Fri, 3 Nov 2006, Alex Hudson wrote:

> Lars D. Noodén wrote:
>> So it's likely that the intented purpose of the deal is something that
>> can be accomplished or dismissed in less than that amount of time.
>> Such as showing a standards body that work "has begun" in supporting
>> MOOX on more than one platform.  If MOOX is then approved, then that
>> work can be dropped like a rock because of "lack of market demand".
>
> Michael Meeks' blog is pretty clear on this:
>
>    http://www.gnome.org/~michael/activity.html#2006-11-02
>
>