Comments on: The Vast Blue-Wing Conspiracy http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/01/vast-blue-wing-conspiracy.html Thinking the unthinkable, pondering the imponderable, effing the ineffable and scruting the inscrutable Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:51:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Rob http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/01/vast-blue-wing-conspiracy.html#comment-347 Rob Tue, 23 Jan 2007 18:16:00 +0000 http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/01/the-vast-blue-wing-conspiracy.html#comment-347 Albert,<br /><br />If you are truly surprised that my blog is pro-ODF and anti-OOXML, then you have not been paying very good attention.<br /><br />I hope you will take the opportunity to report any flaws you find in ODF to our <a href="http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office-comment/" rel="nofollow">public comment list</a>. We do take these reports seriously and believe that a good thorough public review, along with multiple implementations, is the key to a good standard. Albert,

If you are truly surprised that my blog is pro-ODF and anti-OOXML, then you have not been paying very good attention.

I hope you will take the opportunity to report any flaws you find in ODF to our public comment list. We do take these reports seriously and believe that a good thorough public review, along with multiple implementations, is the key to a good standard.

]]> By: hAl http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/01/vast-blue-wing-conspiracy.html#comment-345 hAl Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:17:00 +0000 http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/01/the-vast-blue-wing-conspiracy.html#comment-345 It is surprinsing how your blog is filled with article scrutinising OOXML and finding any miniscule fault of uglyness in the standard but that you never seem to scrutinize ODF in the same way. <br /><br />That makes your blog look extremly anti-OOXML. <br />Don't tell me you could not find flaws in ODF because it seems OASIS is hard-working on trying to add or change stuff for future versions.<br />Also your articles have a tendancy to exagerate the extent of the flaws to find in OOXML by using comparion/parabels which are ment to enhance the feeling that OOXML is a poor standard. However to me who has now read all of ODF and a lot of OOXML the standards seem very different but I would not say one is better than the other. It is surprinsing how your blog is filled with article scrutinising OOXML and finding any miniscule fault of uglyness in the standard but that you never seem to scrutinize ODF in the same way.

That makes your blog look extremly anti-OOXML.
Don’t tell me you could not find flaws in ODF because it seems OASIS is hard-working on trying to add or change stuff for future versions.
Also your articles have a tendancy to exagerate the extent of the flaws to find in OOXML by using comparion/parabels which are ment to enhance the feeling that OOXML is a poor standard. However to me who has now read all of ODF and a lot of OOXML the standards seem very different but I would not say one is better than the other.

]]> By: Marbux http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/01/vast-blue-wing-conspiracy.html#comment-329 Marbux Sun, 21 Jan 2007 09:40:00 +0000 http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/01/the-vast-blue-wing-conspiracy.html#comment-329 To your list of folks who are backing ODF, please don't forget the users. More than a few tech-savvy people really do care about interoperability. Just for starters, let's add in all of the <a href="http://opendocumentfellowship.org/government/precedent" rel="nofollow">governmnent bodies</a> that have announced decisions to adopt ODF. To your list of folks who are backing ODF, please don’t forget the users. More than a few tech-savvy people really do care about interoperability. Just for starters, let’s add in all of the governmnent bodies that have announced decisions to adopt ODF.

]]> By: W^L+ http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/01/vast-blue-wing-conspiracy.html#comment-325 W^L+ Sat, 20 Jan 2007 20:11:00 +0000 http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/01/the-vast-blue-wing-conspiracy.html#comment-325 When a monopolist fears losing his/her monopoly, he/she will attack with every possible thing he/she can.<br /><br />They will try their best to keep control of the file formats that people use, because Office and Windows (Client and Server) are the only parts of Microsoft that make money. This is really about their fear that they will lose one of their cash cows and have to close money-losers like MSN/Live and XBox/Zune/Origami.<br /><br />Pot. Kettle. Black. When a monopolist fears losing his/her monopoly, he/she will attack with every possible thing he/she can.

They will try their best to keep control of the file formats that people use, because Office and Windows (Client and Server) are the only parts of Microsoft that make money. This is really about their fear that they will lose one of their cash cows and have to close money-losers like MSN/Live and XBox/Zune/Origami.

Pot. Kettle. Black.

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