Star Microsoft to Standardize Office Formats
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 21st Nov 2005 23:51 UTC
Features, Office Microsoft intends to submit file formats for its new Office 12 applications to the European standards body ECMA International. The company hopes this will allay concern about its level of control over document formats. Update by AS: For the curious, here's a sample Office 12 file and a sample XPS file. (Note: Right click > Save As..., we're not configured to serve these files just yet.)
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RE[3]: We'll see..
by Marcellus on Tue 22nd Nov 2005 05:19 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: We'll see.."
Marcellus
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2005-08-26

You may not be able to legally make a GPL'd reader in the US, but you are free to make a BSD licensed one.

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RE[4]: We'll see..
by dylansmrjones on Tue 22nd Nov 2005 15:30 in reply to "RE[3]: We'll see.."
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2005-10-02

If you can't handle freely implement a standard in any kind of software, whether proprietary or not, then it's not open.

It's only open if it's open for everyone.

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