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2005-12-06Lining Up Open Formats for Office DocumentsToward Open Format Adoption. The work to develop open office-document formats caught my attention in June, when Microsoft attracted attention to the already-licensed Office 2003 XML Reference Schema licenses and announced that Office “12” would use improved formats as its defaults, with use available under the same licenses. I didn’t give the OASIS OpenDocument 1.0 announcement any of my attention until then. Meanwhile, I developed a comparison table that reflected my best understanding of the relative status of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) and Office Open XML (OOX) undertakings. When Sun Microsystems introduced a covenant not to sue over implementations of ODF, I made my first update. Microsoft recently followed with their own version of a covenant and I have updated the table once again. I have also refined my analysis of the ways that the currently-available (and promised future) specifications, schemas, and software implementing the formats (or elements thereof) are impacted by the offered licenses. I then sketch how that provides room to move forward to adoption and support in ways that are valuable to me. That’s all provided in my latest on-line analysis. I am sure that there will be more reason for updates, but perhaps not at such frequent intervals. Here’s the portion of the latest comparison table that covers the Royalty-Free patent and covenant-not-to-sue provisions:
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