From f343ef4d92352f9fc442aeb9c8b1abee27d74c62 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: luxagraf Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 10:24:02 -0400 Subject: cleaned up wired import --- .../Monkey_Bites/2007/04.02.07/Fri/odfagain.txt | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+) create mode 100644 wired/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.02.07/Fri/odfagain.txt (limited to 'wired/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.02.07/Fri/odfagain.txt') diff --git a/wired/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.02.07/Fri/odfagain.txt b/wired/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.02.07/Fri/odfagain.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1133d16 --- /dev/null +++ b/wired/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.02.07/Fri/odfagain.txt @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +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 + -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2