Comments on: Novell Has Accepted the Legal Threats of OpenXML http://techrights.org/2007/01/12/novell-has-accepted-the-legal-threats-of-openxml/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Fri, 25 Nov 2016 09:41:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: Ian http://techrights.org/2007/01/12/novell-has-accepted-the-legal-threats-of-openxml/comment-page-1/#comment-244 Fri, 12 Jan 2007 20:34:51 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2007/01/12/novell-has-accepted-the-legal-threats-of-openxml/#comment-244 “Novell is another. Sun Microsystems has already criticised (even “slammed”) Open XML, as did IBM, among many more people. who comprehend the value and importance of standards.”

Just a question, how is any of this different than what Samba does? Correct me if I’m wrong, but Samba is a re-implementation of cifs/smb, so it’s a re-implementation of something isn’t a standard. How does supporting OpenXML differ from Samba beyond reverse engineering as opposed to an official partnership with Microsoft? Samba continues to bring relevance to cifs/smb beyond the Windows World. If Longhorn Server breaks Samba in some way, will Samba not directly react to that? That seems pretty well tied to Microsoft to me.

I’m not saying it’s a bad thing from a user standpoint even though the domain controller model is stupid and cludgy and makes me cry every time I have to deal with it. I just don’t see how the two are wholly different beyond the means to an end.

]]> By: shane http://techrights.org/2007/01/12/novell-has-accepted-the-legal-threats-of-openxml/comment-page-1/#comment-242 Fri, 12 Jan 2007 17:36:11 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2007/01/12/novell-has-accepted-the-legal-threats-of-openxml/#comment-242 Stafford Masie, Novell Country Manager for South Africa also alluded to the ‘issue for everyone’ that Open XML’s legal problems would pose:

We’ve published that out, there’s nothing proprietary there, ok now people are saying the open xml format itself is, y’know Microsoft has a little covenant associated with that and that is where the issue is, well y’know that’s an issue for everyone. we’re going to work on the interoperability aspects and we’re going to publish that innovation, that interoperability under the GPL so that shows you how this is going to play out, we’re not going to do things and violate the GPL

But, it’s only a problem for those who accept Novell’s Danaergeschenk of Open XML support

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