Sam Hiser has put together a comprehensive essay comparing the Open Document Format (ODF) standard and Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) standard. Sam is vice-president and director of business affairs for the OpenDocument Foundation, so has an obvious bias. It is, however, a timely and very useful document considering the amount of government lobbying Microsoft is doing. Sam compares the two standards based on:
- Specification development practices
- Usefulness of the specification from an implementors perspective
- Clarity of IPR rights
- Breadth of implementations (many ODF implementations on many platforms versus one partial OOXML implementation)
The document is an excellent summary.
I would love to read the essay, but I don't think you used the right link :)
-Cyrus
http://www.bytesfree.org/
Posted by: Cyrus Mack | 07 June 2007 at 12:24
bugger. sorry. fixed.
Posted by: stephe | 07 June 2007 at 14:27