[odf-discuss] Gnome, Ecma, and what governments (and FOSS?) should have done

[Jody Goldberg]

On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 09:14:50PM -0400, Pamela Jones wrote:
> Anothere example, from Microsoft's Jason Matusow:
> A real litmus test for the viability of the ISO/IEC DIS (draft 
> international standard) 29500 (Open XML) is whether or not there are 
> independent implementations. The answer to this question for Open XML is an 
> unequivocal yes.
> http://blogs.msdn.com/jasonmatusow/archive/2007/08/27/odf-open-xml-technical-specifications-mature-over-time.aspx

They (MS) would be able to make this claim with out Gnumeric or
OO.o based on Apple, Wordperfect, and the cheesy xslt based
conversion they sponsored.