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

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

On 5 June 2010 17:51,  <robert_weir@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> Dave Pawson <dave.pawson@gmail.com> wrote on 06/05/2010 03:44:27 AM:
>
>>
>> Re: [office] SC34 Ballot N1414 "New Work Item Proposal on Document
> Packaging"
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
>
> I think I've been perfectly consistent on this.  I do not favor taking a
> single vendor's technology and turning it into an ISO standard.

I didn't think you understood it Rob.
Read Thorstens email again.

regards


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