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

Lars Noodén lars at umich.edu
Wed Oct 3 14:04:36 EDT 2007


marbux wrote:
> ... Sun was willing to kick in its $350,000 to fund the
> Foundation to finish ODF plug-ins for all three major Office apps on a crash
> basis, as requested by Massachusetts ITD, but was insist on terms that would
> have allowed them to make sure the plug-ins never saw the light of day
> outside Massachusetts. And that required only 5 generic extensions.

Is there a link summarizing this?  There is darn little information on
the Sun ODF Plugin page to say anything at all:
	http://www.sun.com/software/star/odf_plugin/specs.jsp

No formats are mentioned nor completeness.

Regards
-Lars



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