Re: [office] SC34 Ballot N1414 "New Work Item Proposal on Document Packaging"

[Dave Pawson <dave.pawson@gmail.com>]

On 4 June 2010 21:21, Thorsten Behrens <tbehrens@novell.com> wrote:

> Surely the work item proposal asks for an _independent_ standard? Or
> am I getting you wrong here?

No, that is the focus of the work. Wouldn't expect Rob to have
understood that, but it is key.

"... how is it possible to readily create a perfectly interoperable
version of ZIP without infringing PKWARE's copyright? For all these
reasons it seems that the proposal brings the risk of a legal
challenge."

That is just a little key to this.

regards




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