• From: Len Bullard <len.bullard@u...>
• To: Ken North <kennorth@s...>, XML Developers List <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 18:02:11 -0500

That makes no sense.  Why would MS go to this much trouble and expense,
write the material, then hold back some secret sauce that makes it
impossible to implement risking rejection?

Even I am not that cynical.  The gray lady needs perspective.  I can't
fathom where they will get it from on this event.

len


From: Ken North [mailto:kennorth@s...] 

 "Microsoft Is Rebuffed by Standards Body"
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/04/technology/04cnd-soft.html?ex=1346558400&e
n=abed8ca97bef280b&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

"Mr. Hintjens said Microsoft will have a hard time winning over countries
that 
opposed its standards bid because to do so, Microsoft would be forced to 
officially put into the public domain the secret coding for many of its 
proprietary document formats that already dominate the global market, like
those 
in its Office software suite."

Are there any documents that can shed some light one this - which parts of
the 
OOXML spec rely on 'secret coding' ?


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