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Several times over the last few months I have been asked why Microsoft has not made a stronger commitment to provide the necessary intellectual property for future versions of the DIS29500 (OpenXML) specification.
Our commitment is a very strong one, and at least as good if not better than most other standards commitments. That said, we [...]
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The ODF Alliance have been very active during the process to standardize OpenXML, in the early days they did some good work highlighting parts of the specification that needed work.
Of late though they seem to have given up promoting ODF or contributing to the OpenXML debate in any constructive way and have instead chosen to [...]
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Last night I had the honour of sharing dinner with a couple of guys who have been very vocal throughout the current process to standardize OpenXML within ISO. They have added a lot to the debate, not always in a form that has been easy for myself and my colleagues to swallow, but they have [...]
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One of the great mysteries during the process to standardize OpenXML is where some of the news stories come from, especially when they are clearly not substantiated by facts. As I have spent more time reading some of the blogs on this topic I have slowly begun to understand how some of these stories spin [...]
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Those who were present for the second half of the event that the University Of New South Wales CyberLaw centre organized late last year to look at OpenXML technical and legal questions will remember Steve Mutkoski’s presentation comparing the language in the Open Specification Promise with the OpenDocument Patent Statement from Sun Microsystems, Interoperability Specification [...]
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