[OpenISO] Fwd: The Deprecated "Smoke Screen" of MS Office Open XML (OOXML)

[Henrik Sundberg]

Bah! I forgot that this list doesn't handle replies like others (as
discussed before).


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Henrik Sundberg <storangen at gmail.com>
Date: 2007-dec-28 21:03
Subject: Re: [OpenISO] The Deprecated "Smoke Screen" of MS Office Open
XML (OOXML)
To: Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch>


2007/12/28, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch>:
> However I don't think that it's justified to also attack the people
> who are members of ECMA TC45 simply because their employer is
> interested in having a public-domain document with useful
> interoperability information.  I think that the move to declare that
> revulsive stuff "deprecated" comes from this kind of people.

But isn't this a smoke screen anyway?
Microsoft will use the deprecated stuff. No one else will be able to
render the documents correctly. And we're talking about the "1.0"
version.
As I understand it, we are worse off than when reverse engineering the
binary formats.

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