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

[Ian Lynch]

On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 07:18 +0100, Chris Puttick wrote:
> 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?

We definitely should and if nothng else, odf has shifted the agenda from
proprietary .doc to XML openly documented formats. That alone is a major
improvement. Perfection is rarely attainable, improvement is.

Ian
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