Michael Meeks On ODF and OOXML

biscuitfever11 writes "ZDNet has up a great interview with Michael Meeks, the distinguished Novell engineer, who's currently deeply involved in open document format and OpenOffice.org. In the interview, Meeks takes Microsoft to task on its alternative format OOXML and argues that Microsoft should adopt ODF — but says that realistically they never will. He also mentions his favorite example to explain the benefits of open source software to a nontechnical person: the flexibility of open source would have allowed us to free ourselves from Clippy, the world's most despised paperclip, by changing a single line of code."

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Re:Huh? x2

[Acrimonymous]

If you're not competent to set up fallover support on a webserver so it'll cope with a dying hardware component, it is your fault, and you should be blamed if it's not "accesible"[sic].

Come talk to me about this once you're out of high school and you've actually had to submit and justify a budget. At this point, I really have no reason to believe you have any idea what you're talking about.

Either you're just a child, or you're so extremely lucky that you've managed to retain a rather childish optimism. I've had to deal with actual buffoons who can fire me, so I'm not so optimistic.