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

[Daniel Carrera]

On Fri, 2006-03-11 at 14:25 +0000, Ian Lynch wrote:
> > 1) OOo is more then 10 years old (well, the codebase is, ~12 years)
> 
> And XML file formats? XML itself is barely 10 years old

You said it didn't take OOo 10 years to implement .doc. It did. And it
still has only partial support.

> Even if the code base is 12
> years old the relevant document format could not have been designed
> until more recently.

Rob and Thomas are trying to contrast ODF and MOOX:

* ODF was designed for interoperability.
* ODF is relatively simple to implement.
* MOOX was designed for one vendor.
* MOOX is very difficult to implement.

The fact that MOOX was designed quickly means nothing. It's little more
than an XML serialization of a memory dump. Easy to implement if you
happen to be the application that the memory dump was taken from (MS
Office) but pretty darn difficult for everyone else.

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