Italo production: Indians get their OpenXML firewater
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| Stephen McGibbon (MS) says Apache POI would get support for OOXML added,
| Arnaud Le Hors (IBM) stresses the Apache Foundation does NOT support OOXML
| and Stephen is fine with that.
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| Isn't it funny that all these Microsoft partners start new projects to bring
| support of OOXML to various open source projects. Sure, people who took a
| look at the respective code of these myriads of projects were not very much
| impressed. But at least you get the press headlines. XY adds Open XML support
| to Emacs, etc. etc
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-48013/italo-production:indians-get-their-openxml-firewater
Related:
The Standard Trolls
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| It is hard to resolve the pecking order of posters in the Microsoft blogger
| echo chamber. So let's just remark that all the usual suspects assisted in
| this one: Doug Mahugh, Stephen McGibbon, Oliver Bell, Gray Knowlton, etc. Mix
| together, shake, repeat, turn the crank and presto! Out comes news.
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| [...]
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| By analogy to patent trolls, what we're seeing here is the behavior of a
| standards troll -- defining a conformance clause so vague that everything in
| the world is considered to support it, and then searching through
| competitor's web sites in hopes of finding some place where they stumbled
| into supporting it, and then trying to extract some advantage from it.
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| The point should be to look for examples of where OOXML is supported to the
| highest degree, to point out the best examples of high-fidelity interchange
| that your standard allowed. You would think that with so many people at
| Microsoft with "interoperability" in their job titles, that this would be
| obvious. I guess not. But don't be sad. You can always count
| on "supportadmin3" to cheer you up!!!
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http://www.robweir.com/blog/2008/01/standard-trolls.html
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