[odf-discuss] Microsoft Will Support ODF If It Doesn't 'Restrict Choice Among Formats'

Pamela Jones pj at groklaw.net
Tue Jul 17 14:11:57 EDT 2007


not only that, but if you are serving different users, why do we need 
translators?

Carlos Moffat wrote:
> http://www.betanews.com/article/print/Microsoft_Will_Support_ODF_If_It_Doesnt_Restrict_Choice_Among_Formats/1181922127
> 
> The quotes in the article are so bad they're almost funny:
> 
> "It is not unlike how some people wanting to travel from one place to
> another will choose an automobile and others will choose to fly," the
> letter continues. "Both are modes of transportation but they are
> fundamentally different and serve different communities, just as ODF 1.0
> and Open XML are both document formats, but are fundamentally different,
> meeting different needs among users."
> 
> I wonder which one is the car. 
> 
> Carlos
> 
> 
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