Comments on: Novell Markets Its OpenOffice.org Fork Using Patents-Encumbered Microsoft Add-ons

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:53:44 +0000

Microsoft has already deviated far from OOXML (even in Office 2009) and expresses no plan to validate, so it's hard to buy such an argument. "It’s hard for Microsoft to commit to what comes out of Ecma [the European standards group that has already OK’d OOXML] in the coming years, because we don’t know what direction they will take the formats. We’ll of course stay active and propose changes based on where we want to go with Office 14. At the end of the day, though, the other Ecma members could decide to take the spec in a completely different direction. … Since it’s not guaranteed, it would be hard for us to make any sort of official statement."

--Brian Jones, Microsoft

could they use th same excuse here?

By: Dan O'Brian

Dan O'Brian — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:30:36 +0000

The likely/obvious answer is that Microsoft can’t implement a spec which hasn’t been finalized yet.

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:28:24 +0000

vincent,

Maybe people have asked that question. I’m not sure if Microsoft ever responded (maybe I missed it).

By: vincent

vincent — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:07:08 +0000

Why Office 2007 SP2 will support ODF 1.1 and not ODF 1.2 which
will be standardized soon ?

By: landofbind

landofbind — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:00:23 +0000

Well, Ubuntu’s coming release will exclude OpenOffice.org 3.0, in part because of Novell’s Microsoft-esque version of the software.

So you liar where did anyone say anything like that? C'mon explain it? You really are a miserably person! Note: comment has been flagged for arriving from an incarnation of a known (eet), pseudonymous, forever-nymshifting, abusive Internet troll that posts from open proxies and relays around the world.