Comparisons between standards (was Re: this needs wide distribution)

Stefano Maffulli stef at zoomata.com
Tue Dec 12 15:00:36 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 14:31 +0000, Alex Hudson wrote:
> http://odf-converter.sourceforge.net/blog/ and the associated test
> documents are one of the best places to find the interoperability
> differences (e.g., features that are difficult to convert from one to
> another).

Thank you, it's a very interesting blog: another one in my roster :)

> It would be nice for someone like SFLC to actually have a look. If you
> do a side-by-side with the Sun patent agreement, there isn't a huge heap
> of difference.

That's exactly what I was thinking: I would really like to know if the
patent promise by Microsoft is fair with Free Software.  If I find out
I'll let you know.

bye
stef




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