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"whining to have it given to standards body" etc
1. Can you provide links identifying who "whined about giving it to a standards body" (MS Office formats I guess you mean).

2. Lock In. tell me, do you lose information if you store files in ASCII delimited TXT etc etc.
The answer is of course yes, you lose all sorts of formatting that you've put in, and therefore $$.
RTF is hardly any better either.
Therefore it is true that Office format produced lockin.

3. XSLs that I wrote to translate MrProject XML files to OpenOffice XML format: Once again you miss the point. This isn't me saying "i'm Mr Wonderful I did this", I was pointing out that it is EASY to TRANSFORM between DTDs in XML.
MS Office XML --> OpenOffice XML and vice versa is probably not very hard at all.
It also makes migration to an XML repository much easier also, and onwards to logical document editing which suits organistions better than the damn manual way of working with a wordprocessor.
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Well..  vdraken | 11/05/04
Author needs to get his facts straight.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/05/04
Author has them correct.  berck | 11/05/04
Interesting, and I think misleading.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/05/04
Closed source plugins are common in the GPL world  George Mitchell | 11/06/04
Oh I agree, but being clear on it.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/06/04
Microsoft is opening this to meet EU req's.  B.O.F.H. | 11/06/04
Actually no, it was part of the DOJ agreement.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/06/04
So accroding to No_Ax, Microsoft got it wrong?  B.O.F.H. | 11/06/04
What is NOT being said.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/05/04
Message has been deleted.  itanalyst | 11/05/04
It does not need to be included ...  George Mitchell | 11/06/04
True, open source can be another channel for MS  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/06/04
How much better  michael-t | 11/05/04
You wanna see miserable consumers...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/05/04
why are you so upset?  JasonL31 | 11/07/04
THANKS, MONTI  theo_durcan | 11/05/04
Monit boy had NOTHING to do with it.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/06/04
This is to meet EU's IDA Commission, not DOJ.  B.O.F.H. | 11/06/04
Go back and read the DoJ settlement please.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/06/04
Take it up with Microsoft!  B.O.F.H. | 11/06/04
And Monti says...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/07/04
You shoulod do a little research before you respond!  B.O.F.H. | 11/07/04
Questions on the method.  Update victim | 11/05/04
Answers for ya.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/06/04
A million posts by NoAx again, and he gets it wrong every time  hipparchus2000 | 11/06/04
Hmmm, lets see how many ways you are wrong.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/07/04
"whining to have it given to standards body" etc  hipparchus2000 | 11/07/04
now f they just stop bolting apps to the OS  JasonL31 | 11/07/04
Huh, everyone is HAPPY.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/07/04
You claim to be a consultant  IT_User | 11/07/04
By your request...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/08/04
no link then  hipparchus2000 | 11/08/04
then why are you so unhappy?  JasonL31 | 11/07/04
Me, I'm as happy as a pig in slip.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/08/04
A pig in a slip?  Spoon Jabber | 11/09/04
Not that you are using it anyways  FilledOut | 11/08/04

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