Once More unto the Breach: Office Open XML Conformance (A Lesson in Claiming Standards Conformance) - 0 views
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Gary Edwards on 09 Sep 07Presentation fidelity and round tripping? Looks like someone has been attention to what happened in Massachusetts.
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As far as I can tell in the Massachusetts poster-child case, ODF has simply come to mean whatever OpenOffice.org does
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Keep in mind orchmid that it is the OpenOffice code base that ODF is bound to. There are many instances of the OOo code base pushed by various vendors. Sun provides OpenOffice.org and StarOffice versions of the code base. Novell Open Office is the same code base. Same with Red Hat Office and IBM WorkPlace. Outside this common code base, ODF has near ZERO interoperability.
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