[odf-discuss] Microsoft wins prize for "Best Campaigner against OOXML Standardization"

[marbux]

On 10/2/07, Peter Vandenabeele <peter at vandenabeele.com> wrote:
>
> This adds one more to the list of growing interoperable ODF processing
> applications (Sun StarOffice + OpenOffice.org + IBM Symphony + Google
> Docs + KOffice + SEPT-mobile Mobile Office + and also (MS Office 2003
> + Sun plug-in)).


Wrong. One-way interop is not interoperability. That issue was settled
conclusively in the recent Court of First Instance decision, rejecting
Microsoft's argument that one-way interop was interoperability and holding
that Microsoft must disclose sufficient information to allow competitors to
achieve the same quality of interoperability that Microsoft achieves among
its own software products.

ODF presently offers only lossy interop. See e.g., <
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/odf-adoption/200709/msg00032.html>
(post by Thomas Zander). Neither DIS 29500 nor ODF include any
interoperability conformance requirements whatsoever beyond validation. It
is error to portray ODF as a set of formats designed for interoperability.
It is not.

Best regards,


BUCK "MARBUX" MARTIN
  Director of Legal Affairs
  OpenDocument Foundation
  Contact:
<http://www.opendocumentfoundation.us/contact.htm>
-- Universal Interop Now!
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