ODF Editor Says ODF Loses If OOXML Does

An anonymous reader writes "The editor of the Open Document Format standard has written a letter (PDF) that strongly supports recognizing Microsoft's OOXML file format as a standard, arguing that if it fails, ODF will suffer. 'As the editor of OpenDocument, I want to promote OpenDocument, extol its features, urge the widest use of it as possible, none of which is accomplished by the anti-OpenXML position in ISO,' Patrick Durusau wrote. 'The bottom line is that OpenDocument, among others, will lose if OpenXML loses... Passage of OpenXML in ISO is going to benefit OpenDocument as much as anyone else.'"

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Re:We failed already

[DisKurzion]

Acrobat, on the other hand, is a bloated pile of garbage. When was the last time you used Acrobat? If you disable the "load on start" stuff, Acrobat 8 is pretty damn snappy, despite all the "bloated" features.

A typical text PDF that is 400 pages long (Oracle documentation, 8 MB) loads in about a second.
A 1000 page scanned book (85 MB downloaded from Google books) loads in less than 5 seconds.

All the poo-pooing elitist crap about "Acrobat being bloated" is little more than trolling for mod points (since it's obviously just group-think anymore).