March 27, 2008
1:12 am
The editor of the Open Document Format (ODF) standard has written a letter that strongly supports recognizing Microsoft’s Open Office XML (OOXML) file format as a standard, arguing that if it fails, ODF will suffer.
“As the editor of OpenDocument, I want to promote OpenDocument, extol its features, urge the widest use of it as possible, none of which is accomplished by the anti-OpenXML position in ISO,” Patrick Durusau wrote. “The bottom line is that OpenDocument, among others, will lose if OpenXML loses. … Passage of OpenXML in ISO is going to benefit OpenDocument as much as anyone else.”
Microsoft, OOXML, Office Open XML, ODF, ISO, File Format, Document Format, Open-Source, Open Source
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