[odf-discuss] Abiword gets requests for OOXML, not ODF

[Chris Puttick]

Cool. So we should not bother with standards because entrenched
monopolies are going to control what happens anyway? My attempt in
summarising your post - I see little else to draw from it. Apart from
maybe some vague indications of the superiority of MOO-XML versus
ODF-XML. Which confuses me, as the XML part of MOO is definitely
poorer and harder to access than ODF due to its poor readability and
incomplete references, and the rest of the capacity to
post/pre-process is basically equal as a zipped container of objects
including text.

So should we bother with standards or not?

Chris

2008/5/16 marbux <marbux at gmail.com>:
> On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Matthew Holloway
> <docvert at holloway.co.nz> wrote:
>> Interview with Abiword developers about ODF in the latest Redhat Magazine:
>> http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2008/05/08/abiword-team-interview/
>>
>> It does seem that they consider involvement in OASIS ODF to be difficult.
>
> The reasons they give are worth the read as they involve issues of
> both ODF governance and specific interop barriers posed by the ODF
> spec. I have a somewhat vague recollection of a change coming in ODF
> 1.2 that might resolve their interop issue in regard to handling of
> comments, IIRC the ability to anchor annotations (comments) to a text
> span.
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