● 05.08.08

●● Quote of the Day: OpenOffice.org Already Ahead of ODF 1.0, Microsoft Behind OOXML

Posted in Formats, Free/Libre Software, Microsoft, Office Suites, Open XML, OpenDocument, OpenOffice, Standard at 10:40 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

ODF is the future and OOXML is the past, claimed Bob Sutor last year

There is a lot of disinformative fuss at the moment with people claiming that OpenOffice.org 3 “supports OOXML.” It does not. The word “supports” has an active — as opposed to a negative — connotation. In reality, OpenOffice.org is all about ODF. The OOXML filter/importes are intended to help with converting Microsoft’s garbled mess (Office 2007 is not OOXML-compliant) into something standard, into ODF — for good.

Here is a nice way of laying out this situation: ODF implementations are already ahead of the existing elegant-yet-incomplete standard, whereas Microsoft is behind, never intending to actually obey its own broken specifications.

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So what’s the difference between Microsoft/OOXML and OpenOffice.org/ODF ?

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The difference is, that Microsoft Office is behind OOXML. OpenOffice.org is ahead of ODF. According to the ISO rules, a specification can only be approved as an ISO-standard, unless it has been implemented.

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OOXML is not a standard yet. One thing which it sure is: a scandal. █

“37 letters with exactly the same words. Some of the senders didn’t even care to remove the ‘Type company name here’ text. Simular letters has been circulating in Denmark as an e-mail from the Danish MD Jørgen Bardenfleth to customers and business partners. I call it fraud, cheating and disgusting. If I wasn’t anti-Microsoft before, I am now. Disgusting !”

–Leif Lodahl

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