Confusion, Standards, and OpenXML Feb 28, 2008, 16 :00 UTC (10 Talkback[s]) (6149 reads) (Other stories by Patrick Durusau)
"I hesitate to respond to Andy Updegrove's essay on my point that OpenXML has improved in moving
from a closed to a more open environment. It was hardly a clarion call for approval of OpenXML but
merely an observation that anti-Microsoft zealots were not giving credit where credit was due. I object
to honesty being the first casualty in discussions that involve Microsoft, on the pro/con or government
sides.
"I also hesitate to respond because Andy has so deeply mis-stated the nature of the debate that a
response will take me far afield from the technical aspects of markup, which are a legitimate subject of
discussion on markup standards..."
