diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.02.07/Fri/odfagain.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.02.07/Fri/odfagain.txt | 30 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 30 deletions
diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.02.07/Fri/odfagain.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.02.07/Fri/odfagain.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 1133d16..0000000 --- a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.02.07/Fri/odfagain.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,30 +0,0 @@ -Lacking community support of its [much maligned][1] OOXML file format, Microsoft decided earlier this week to fake it. In yet another bid to fast track the OOXML format for ISO certification, Microsoft has posted an [online petition][6] positing grassroots support for OOXML, which has thus far seen [very little support][5] outside the walls of Redmond. - -Mark Taylor, the founder of the [Open Source Consortium][7], tells [ZDNet UK][8], "in the open-source world, there's clearly a massive grassroots thing." Taylor thinks that Microsoft is trying to apply the old adage if you can't make it, fake it. - -"One of the lessons Microsoft has been trying to learn from open source is that -- but they have to fake it." Taylor argues that if there were actually any grassroots support of the OOXML petition it would have been created "ages ago." - -OOXML has been [criticized][2] since its inception and with [more and more U.S. states][3] moving toward the existing OpenDocument Format over OOXML, Microsoft is facing an increasingly uphill battle with OOXML. - -An earlier attempt at posting an open letter to the open source community [backfired][4] with most critics dismissing it as whining while one former Microsoft employee went so far as to call the letter "professionally embarrassing." - -Thus far the online petition is receiving pretty much the same reaction. - -Marino Marcich of the [OpenDocument Format Alliance][9] told Compiler earlier this month that with over twenty countries objecting to the OOXML proposal, "the road ahead for OOXML will by no means be easy." - -Taylor also suggested to ZDNet that Microsoft was "in major trouble trying to get Open XML pushed through" and the petition "shows their worry." - - -[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/02/microsofts_ooxm.html "Microsoft's OOXML Format Receives More Setbacks" -[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/01/more_on_microso.html "More On Microsoft's OOXML Format" -[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/03/california_eyes.html "California Eyes Move Towards ODF, Away from OOXML" -[4]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/02/microsofts_open.html "Microsoft's Open Letter Whine" -[5]: http://www.wired.com/software/coolapps/news/2007/01/72403 "MS Fights to Own Your Office Docs" - -[6]: http://microsoft.co.uk/openxml/ "OOXML petition" -[7]: http://www.opensourceconsortium.org/ "Open Source Consortium" -[8]: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39286647,00.htm "Microsoft criticised for Open XML petition" -[9]: http://www.odfalliance.org/ "OpenDocument Format Alliance" - -Microsoft Petition A Desperate Bid to Gain OOMXL Support - |