Re: Regarding OOXML and Microsoft patents

[Hubert Figuiere <hub figuiere net>]

> This is no reason we shouldn't _try_ to implement OOXML.  As long as
> we are not forcibly stopped, we may as well try to implement
> everything that users want.  

This work is currently being done jointly with Sun and Novell in
OpenOffice.org. It is developed openly in OpenOffice.org CVS and is
license the same way as the rest of the office suite (ie it is free
software).

For those who want to scream conspiracy theories, I'm one of the
developers for Novell and I don't have access to any "confidential" bit
of the specification. This means that whatever hole exists (and there
are) we have to assemble the pieces together on our own.

Hub