Comments on: OOXML – Ireland recommended to abstain http://www.eire.com/2007/ooxml-ireland-recommended-to-abstain/ Government, Infrastructure, Business Mon, 07 Nov 2011 07:06:19 +0000 hourly 1 By: B. Nitz http://www.eire.com/2007/ooxml-ireland-recommended-to-abstain/comment-page-1/#comment-148766 B. Nitz Mon, 03 Sep 2007 10:59:56 +0000 http://www.eire.com/2007/08/17/ooxml-ireland-recommended-to-abstain/#comment-148766 It isn't too late for Microsoft to adopt ODF, they were also late adopters of a late 1980s fad known as "The Internet", but did eventually adopt (and adapt) some of the established standards (TCP/IP, SMTP, IMAP, HTML, Javascript, Java...) so users of their Windows operating system could make use of this Internet. Google shows ODF is already much more popular than OOXML. But, even if ODF doesn't catch on here in Eire, a little country called India and another one called China which together account for about 1/3 of the world's population and nearly all of the world's IT growth. India and China both voted No on OOXML fast track. And now I hear that Ireland also voted No (well done) and Sweden is retracting its suspicious yes vote. Don't give up hope on ODF yet. It isn’t too late for Microsoft to adopt ODF, they were also late adopters of a late 1980s fad known as “The Internet”, but did eventually adopt (and adapt) some of the established standards (TCP/IP, SMTP, IMAP, HTML, Javascript, Java…) so users of their Windows operating system could make use of this Internet.

Google shows ODF is already much more popular than OOXML. But, even if ODF doesn’t catch on here in Eire, a little country called India and another one called China which together account for about 1/3 of the world’s population and nearly all of the world’s IT growth. India and China both voted No on OOXML fast track.

And now I hear that Ireland also voted No (well done) and Sweden is retracting its suspicious yes vote. Don’t give up hope on ODF yet.

]]> By: Rahood http://www.eire.com/2007/ooxml-ireland-recommended-to-abstain/comment-page-1/#comment-147362 Rahood Wed, 29 Aug 2007 14:53:43 +0000 http://www.eire.com/2007/08/17/ooxml-ireland-recommended-to-abstain/#comment-147362 //it.slashdot.org/it/07/08/28/1237255.shtml "My position was that this is basically a good standard and it is a good thing that the Office world is becoming more open. It might have been better if Microsoft had adopted ODF, but they didn’t, and we have to work with reality, not ideals." Hows the cool-aid //it.slashdot.org/it/07/08/28/1237255.shtml

“My position was that this is basically a good standard and it is a good thing that the Office world is becoming more open. It might have been better if Microsoft had adopted ODF, but they didn’t, and we have to work with reality, not ideals.”

Hows the cool-aid

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