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Interview with Sun's Florian Reuter

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the shiny-new-widgets dept.

silentbob4 writes "Mad Penguin is running a series of three interviews with people in the trenches working to bring you OpenOffice.org 2.0. The first of these interviews, with Sun's Florian Reuter, covers some of the differences between the truly open XML found in OpenOffice.org 2.0, and the closed MS Word ML found in the upcoming Microsoft Office 12. He also discusses the importance of simple end users in the process of improving the code with bug reports."

4 of 132 comments (clear)

  1. "simple end users"? by Yahweh+Doesn't+Exist · · Score: 4, Funny

    are they insulting our intelligence!?

  2. New kind of network equipment by Neo-Rio-101 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Interview with Sun's Florian Reuter

    I read the title of that article and the first thing I thought was that Sun had developed a new piece of networking hardware and were actively interviewing it.

    It's late here, I should go home.

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  3. A thorough technical answer by gazbo · · Score: 0, Funny
    covers some of the differences between the truly open XML found in OpenOffice.org 2.0, and the closed MS Word ML

    Am I missing something here? He doesn't seem to cover any of the differences other than restating that OOo XML is "more open". MS may as well post a rebuttal stating that MS XML is better because it leverages more synergies.

  4. SOA by koekepeer · · Score: 3, Funny

    SOA (in Dutch) has the same meaning as the English abbreviation STD (sexually transmitted disease). kinda funny to read this in an article on software ;-)