Re: Open Office file formats (Oasis-open) and gnumeric

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 12:06:47PM -0500, Russell McOrmond wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Daniel Veillard wrote:
>
> >   No on principles. I disagree with the fact that I need to pay to
> > get involved in the standardization group of OASIS.
>
>   I would like to clarify this if I can.  Is it the problem that *you* as
> an individual have to pay, or that there is payment involved generally.  

  yeah, let's be clear :-)
it's a personal problem, I'm not speaking for anyone else there or any
group or company.

> If there was sponsorship of GNOME Office to the OASIS Open Office TC,
> would that solve the problem in your mind?

  Except I'm not the best to sit there, I think Jody clearly did quite
deeper analysis of the side effects of the XML format constructs for gnumeric.
The fact that he's not very happy with it should not be underestimated :-)

>   It is my understanding that the W3C isn't going to be dealing with
> office productivity file formats, and the IETF may not be dealing with

   For the W3C statement, yes I don't think there is interest at this 
point, though I can't speak for them, I have seen W3C trying to avoid
doing format design, and focusing more on the framework specifications.
OASIS is a fine place for this.

Daniel

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