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A Look At MS's MA Talking Points
tbray writes "It may not be a Halloween Document, but one of the lobby groups in the thick of the Massachusetts office-doc standardization fray passed me 'The Other Side's Talking Points', so I've published (and slightly deconstructed) them with a barnyard-animal picture." From the article: "The direction toward interoperability using XML data standards is clearly a good one. However, limiting the document formats to the OpenOffice format is unnecessary, unfair and gives preferential treatment for specific vendor products, and prohibits others. The proposed approach and process for use of XML data is quite open to multiple standards, yet the proposed standard for documents is quite narrow, preferential, and may not enable optimal use of the data-centric standards."
No it's not. Open Document is NOT an "Open Office format" like Microsoft says. In fact, OO.Org were/are one of the last free software suites to give support to OD (they still haven't released an official stable version with OD support). The following support OD: * Abiword 2.3, through the OpenWriter plugin * eZ publish 3.6, with OpenOffice extension * IBM Workplace * Knomos case management 1.0 [4] * KOffice 1.4, released on June 21st 2005 * OpenOffice.org 1.1.5 RC and 2.0 BETA 2 * Scribus 1.2.2, imports OpenDocument Text and Graphics * TextMaker 2005 beta [5] * Visioo Writer 0.5.2 [6]