I wanted to comment on the spat that is going on between IBM and Microsoft and Open Standards. Actually it is not really a spat since all IBM is saying, support a ratified open standard like ODF rather than getting another quasi standard like openXML from Microsoft. Now Microsoft is blaming IBM for taking sides. Glyn Moody summed it up well in his post titled “Microsoft’s Fruedian Slips”. I quote
What Microsoft glides over, of course, is that the choice is within the standard. There are now a number of programs supporting ODF, with more coming through. That’s choice. I doubt whether there will ever be a non-Microsoft program that supports fully its own XML format: there will be no choice, just lock-in under a different name.
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