[odf-discuss] Fwd: You see, that's why we need ODF so badly

[Lars Noodén]

Chris Puttick wrote:
> http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/mgmt/74C665EDA37CB6F0CC2573560004F188
> ...

If you take it in context of Party Member Doug Mahugh's Talk at TechEd
SEA 2007, you get a stronger hint that MS has no intent of following any
standards even their own:
	http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2007/09/doug-mahughs-ta.html

This is of course on top of the fact that DOCX already doesn't follow
Ecma 376 specification.

The whole thing appears there just to burn developer cycles that would
otherwise be used for competitor software and interoperability.  Sort of
a better (from a psyop perspective) re-run of the Windows API attack
used against Lotus:
	
	Alepin, a former chief technology officer at Fujitsu
	Software Corp. and currently a San Francisco-based
	adviser for high-tech law firm Morrison Foerster LLP,
	testified that 1-2-3's eventual demise was caused in
	part by Microsoft encouraging Lotus' programmers to use
	Windows application programming interfaces (API).
	Microsoft Excel's own developers had already decided
	those same APIs "were not worthwhile using because they
	were complicated," he said. "They used large amounts of
	memory. They were slower than other ways of doing it."

-http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9007527&pageNumber=2

Another purpose of DOCX/Ecma376/MOOX is to burn up people's attention:
saturate, diffuse and confuse.

If MS is able to make it look like a squabble, then average people
quickly tire and become passive, thus allowing MS to continue
capitalizing on apathy and inactivity.

-Lars