[odf-discuss] Linspire's MOOX initiatives

[Christian Einfeldt]

I am assuming that this is not good news.  According to the two press
releases below, the first from 1 july 2007 and the second from 11 July 2007,
Linspire has a plug-in for making the ODF and MOOX work together.  (I prefer
to call OOXML "MOOX" because I have been told that MOOX is neither open nor
XML.)

At any rate, I am assuming that Microsoft is doing this work because it
breaks ODF somewhere, right?  Can someone give me a fairly simple newbie
summary?  Thanks.  Consider this:  OOo and Audacity and a bunch of other
FOSS apps work on Windows, so what is wrong with Linspire's work here?  Is
it that it adopts MOOX as a standard and not ODF?  Or is it that this news
gives Microsoft more evidence to suggest that MOOX should be an ISO
standard?

We are probably going to need to comment on this Linspire announcement at
some time, so in the unlikely event that no one here heard of it yet, I
wanted to show it to you.

Here is the first press release from Linspire:

Linspire, Inc., developer of the Linspire commercial and Freespire community
desktop Linux operating systems, today announced it will join the current
efforts to improve the ability of
OpenOffice.org<http://www.openoffice.org/>users to work with the
Office Open XML format by increasing the
interoperability between ODF and Open XML.

Linspire is joining with others who have signed on to this effort, including
Novell and Xandros, to create bi-directional open source translators for
word processing, spreadsheets and presentations between ODF and Open XML.
All future releases of Linspire and Freespire will include the
bi-directional translators between ODF and Open XML. As a result, end users
of Microsoft Office and OpenOffice.org will be able to more easily share
files, as documents will better maintain consistent formats, formulas and
style templates across the two office productivity suites.

http://www.linspire.com/lindows_news_pressreleases_archives.php?id=220

Here is the second press release.

Linspire, Inc., developer of the Linspire commercial and Freespire community
desktop Linux operating systems, today announced the immediate availability
of the Open XML Translator within their latest released Freespire and
Linspire products. Adding another interoperability tool to their core
operating systems, the Open XML Translator enables bi-directional
compatibility so that files saved in Open XML can be opened by OpenOffice
users, and files created by OpenOffice to be saved in Open XML format. Last
month, Linspire announced it had joined ongoing efforts to help create
bi-directional open source translators for word processing, spreadsheets and
presentations between ODF and Open XML.The result of these efforts are to
improve the ability of OpenOffice.org users to work with the Office Open XML
format by increasing the interoperability between ODF and Open XML formats.
As a result, end users of Microsoft Office and
OpenOffice.org<http://www.openoffice.org/>will now be able to more
easily share files, as documents will better
maintain consistent formats, formulas, and style templates across the two
office productivity suites.

http://www.linspire.com/lindows_news_pressreleases_archives.php?id=221
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