May 23 2007

OOXML: a picture is worth 1000 words

Published by Stef at 10:25 am under fellowship, fsf

Architects are taught from day one at school that pictures are worth a thousand words if you want to describe something. Look at the picture of the specifications of Microsoft OOXML standard: doesn’t it scream Interoperability is IMPOSSIBLE to you?

The printed spec of OOXML

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3 Responses to “OOXML: a picture is worth 1000 words”

  1. # ][ stefano maffulli » Mobile open standards and Funambol on the Blackberryon 01 Feb 2008 at 12:03 pm

    [...] war on the desktop is nothing compared to the war on mobile standards.  On the desktop there is ODF vs OOXML, Microsoft vs the rest of the industry; the market is much more mature and “stable” [...]

  2. # ][ stefano maffulli » Celebrating Document Freedom Day 2008on 26 Mar 2008 at 12:38 pm

    [...] standards are the only way to start securing the future of society.  Unfortunately greed of companies promoting proprietary standards together with ill advised governments can put our future in [...]

  3. # ][ stefano maffulli » Final stages of the office documents standards waron 31 Mar 2008 at 10:50 am

    [...] proposal is not ready, they’re late in its development and it’s so bloated it’s impossible to implement. On the contrary ISO approved ODF (ISO 26300) is good enough, stable and widely used [...]

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