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

[marbux]

On 10/3/07, Lars Noodén <lars at umich.edu> wrote:
>
> 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.


Yeah, except for a claim of "seamless" interop with MS Office on the
StarOffice 8 home page. :-) It kind of says a lot about what the actual
market requirement is in a false advertising kind of way.

On links summarizing that, I'll have to check. I know we've got some Writely
docs that go into it in some detail. I'll check to see if they're published
or shareable without Gary being around. He's out of pocket until next week
with some family stuff and I may not have sharing or publication permissions
on the particular documents.

Best regards,

Marbux




Regards
> -Lars
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