[odf-discuss] Mass may endorse OXML.

[Daniel Carrera]

marbux wrote:
> The idea was to switch all instances of MS Office in the state to save 
> to ODF rather than to Microsoft formats, which would have ended the 
> lock-in and,

An "ODF" that is packed with foreign metadata that you were unable to 
translate and is completely unknown would merely replace MS Office 
lock-in by "MS Office + Foundation plugin" lock-in.

> But it fell apart when the big ODF vendors that had been asked by 
> Massachusetts to fund the Foundation's development of its plug-in 
> declined to do so

You are telling us that the state of Massachusetts asked Sun and IBM to 
give you (the Foundation) money for your product?

> and Sun refused to modify StarOffice/OpenOffice.org so 
> they woud preserve foreign elements and attributes instead of destroying 
> them.

Nevermind the fact that your demand that unknown elements be preserved 
is technically unfeasible.

Daniel.