bogi wrote: > Shawn, It does have an effect on you as a programmer. By becoming a standard, > you as a programmer will have to implement code to read and write documents > in that format, and since a significant part of the standard involves
Where does it say that? Who is standing behind me with the whip to make me? I have a choice if I want to do this. A standard does not make the choice for me. I would only care if I am writing code that needs to talk with Microsoft products and/or OOXML based products. a) that's not likely (for me), and b) I can still convince people to use the easier (and already existing) solution. > proprietary and patented Microsoft software and algorithms, you would have no > hope of producing a reasonable reproduction of the format without those > proprietary and closely guarded (ip) of Microsoft, and they may decide not to > give it to you at all, specially if you are an open source developer or > developing a competing application to theirs. > Unfortunately by winning, Microsoft has destroyed the credibility of ISO as a > credible source of reference regarding what flies and what does not. I tend to agree with the rest of your comments. The next year will be interesting to see what happens with the standardization process. I think we'll see lots of fallout from this. A flawed system has been identified, and in the nature of Open Source a better system will be found to minimize those flaws. Or perhaps I have too much faith in humanity? :) Shawn _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
