[odf-discuss] Fwd: FW: [Noooxml] Fwd: OOXML

[Thomas Zander]

On Wednesday 02 May 2007 10:18:59 Lars D. Noodén wrote:
> My take is that Ecma 376 is so hopelessly tied to MS Office, that it
> would be impossible for a complete third party implementation.

And you may be right. But just saying that will not convince anyone. 
Especially not ISO which has a voting procedure and if enough countries 
agree that its Ok, then it becomes a standard.

>   So rather than trying to teach that pig
> to sing, effort would be better spent seeing that it dies the quick and
> peaceful death it deserves

The troubling point here is that there is no way to make the 
standard 'die'. It already is a standard and it already is for vote on 
ISO.

If you believe there is lots of things wrong with it; then you should 
consider writint those up in the format that ISO expects and make sure 
the member countries see that.
After all, there is nothing like a 12000 pages 'suggestions' document to 
convince ISO that, indeed the standard is not upto snuff.

You say you'd rather let is die; if you have a strategy on how to do that, 
please tell us.
-- 
Thomas Zander
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