:Alex Brown: OOXML is Like a Baroque Castle with Secret Passages and Crumbling Towers
Alex Brown: OOXML is Like a Baroque Castle with Secret Passages and Crumbling Towers Apr 15, 2008, 12 :45 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (3966 reads) (Other stories by Pamela Jones)
"Here's a quotation for the ages, from an Alex Brown comment on Andrew Updegrove's Standards Blog (scroll down) asking Brown if he'd agree that ODF was cleaner than OOXML:
"'I'd go with that. I think ISO/IEC 26300 (ODF 1.0) can be compared to a neat house built on good foundations which is not finished; 29500 (OOXML) is a baroque cliffside castle replete with toppling towers, secret passages and ghosts: it is all too finished...'"
