[odf-discuss] Mass may endorse OXML.

[Sigrid Kronenberger]

Am Wed, 4 Jul 2007 06:27:28 -0700
schrieb marbux <marbux at gmail.com>:

> On 7/4/07, Daniel Carrera <daniel.carrera at zmsl.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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 Oracle and Novell, although it was before I was involved. But
> yes, I've seen lots of paperwork on the subject. Former Massachusetts
> CIO Louis was informed on October 3, 2006 that the big vendors
> wouldn't agree to provide the funding and he submitted his
> resignation the next day. <
> http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9003866

I'm sorry, I don't see a point here. What has the resigning of the
former CIO from Massachussetts to do with IBM, Sun, Oracle and Novell
not giving the Foundation any money for the DaVinci-plugin? 

> 
> Sure, that's why WordPerfect has been using virtually the same system
> since WordPerfect 6 to achieve both backward and *forward*
> interoperability across WP 6 and all all later versions. Obivously,
> they use it because they wanted to do something that was infeasible.
> Open a WP 12 complex document in WP 6, turn on Reveal Codes, and look
> for the <unknown> tags. They're only there to prove that the Novell
> and Corel engineers wanted to mess up the program.

No objections, if you do want to use WordPerfect. You don't have to use
any application, that uses ODF as the default file format. Just stay
with WordPerfect. 

I haven't used this program, so I can't say, if it's good or bad. But
if you're satisfied with it, why bother with any other application? 



Sigrid