Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 22nd Jan 2007 23:27 UTC, submitted by anonymous
"So I was a little surprised to receive email a couple of days ago from Microsoft saying they wanted to contract someone independent but friendly (me) for a couple of days to provide more balance on Wikipedia concerning ODF/OOXML. I am hardly the poster boy of Microsoft partisanship! Apparently they are frustrated at the amount of spin from some ODF stakeholders on Wikipedia and blogs. I think I'll accept it: FUD enrages me and MS certainly are not hiring me to add any pro-MS FUD, just to correct any errors I see." So basically, it seems as if Microsoft is trying to 'hire' people to edit Wikipedia.
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Um, you must be living in a reality-distortion zone. Corel ist implementing ODF, too. Guess which of their implementations will probably be better? I'll bet you (seriously!) that it'll be ODF.
So which is the more app-neutral standard, the one that requires that one look at a particular source code's implementaiton or one that doesn't need such?
You would make me laugh out loud, if it weren't for the fact that I felt my intelligence was being insulted. ODF-implementers "need" MS Office source-code probably way more than they "need" OO.org source-code, but they'll never have it now, will they, so it's quite the moot argument.