Subject: Re: Are you working with the StarOffice/OpenOffice ppl on fileformat?
From: sam th (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Thu Aug 03 2000 - 15:52:49 CDT
On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
> Pay attention on MS. They can accept such standard format, add many windows
> and ms-office specific features (they will have to anyway, as they will
> have different feature set than Abi, Star, Corel or K) and you all may
> end having to implement much such crap just to stay compatible. :-(
> This has happened to Web standards, and Office area is way more profitable
> and imortant for them, so they can do it again.
Well, if they just want features to support their features, that could
easily be accopmlished in the standard. If they want to 'embrace and
extend', they would have to contend with the combined market share of
every app that used the standard format. And even some interoperability
with MS would be better than the current situation.
sam th
sam@uchicago.edu
http://www.abisource.com/~sam
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