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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, December 25 2012 @ 06:29 AM EST |
Charles H. Schulz has written a piece that was psleiuhbd on Groklaw which
attempts to shed some light on the background of the dispute, and offers some
conjecture on what Meeks' motivation may be: Bear with me now: The
OpenOffice.org project is developing import filters for OpenXML, but not export
filters. Why? Because, I believe, it does not want to make a service to
Microsoft by being the second major office suite to produce OpenXML documents on
the fly. Novell sees this issue from a different point of view, but let's not
get carried away. Working with Microsoft on interoperability, as Novell claims,
includes working on OpenXML filters and plugins. While Novell contributes quite
normally to OpenOffice.org's import filters, it is also developing an OpenXML
export filter that won't be available in OpenOffice.org that is, if you choose
to use OpenOffice.org and not Open Office, Novell Edition . And since these
export filters are supposedly developed in collaboration with Microsoft, this
technology would logically include Microsoft's sacred intellectual property that
Sun and many others don't want to see covered by the JCA. This could, perhaps,
explain Michael's odd questions on this list of OpenOffice.org[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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