March 28, 2008
1:55 am
Microsoft has assured coders that its Open Specification Promise (OSP) — a pledge it won’t sue developers using OOXML — will apply to future versions of the document format.
Oliver Bell, Microsoft Asia Pacific regional technology officer, wrote on his blog: “As long as Microsoft participates in the revision process to completion, Microsoft irrevocably commits to apply the OSP to that future version of IS29500 [the OOXML specification].”
“There were concerns the Open Specification Promise would only apply to existing file formats,” Sarah Bond, Microsoft’s platform strategy manager, said.
Microsoft, OOXML, Office Open XML, OSP, File Format, Document Format, Open-Source, Open Source, Coders, ISO
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