[odf-discuss] Microsoft will now support ODF

[Jan Claeys]

Op donderdag 22-05-2008 om 11:16 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Daniel
Carrera:
> What *we* need to do between now and then is help with the test suite
> project under the leadership of Rob Weir. Create a standard of what it
> means to support ODF. Come next year, to the extent that MSO fails to
> pass the conformance tests, we can tell them that they haven't yet
> fulfilled their promise, and the European Union will agree with that.
> To the extent that the test suite is easy to pass because it is
> incomplete, MS will be able to reasonably claim that they conform to
> ODF because they pass the conformance test.

An extensive automatic test suite + public conformance statistics (once
the tests are considered stable) would also help the other implementers
of ODF to become more standards compliant...


-- 
Jan Claeys