Re: [oiic-formation-discuss] My perspective. Extensions

["David Gerard" <dgerard@gmail.com>]

2008/7/1  <robert_weir@us.ibm.com>:

> I'm aware of this behavior in the past.  In fact through the 1980's and
> 1990's almost all word processors relied on document formats that were
> proprietary and mostly undocumented.  However, I am not aware of this being
> a problem with ODF applications today.  Maybe someone can point me to an
> example of where this is a problem?


That's like saying "I am unaware of ODF mail clients today that
encourage automatic execution of data as code, so there's no reason to
discourage it." Surely it's inherently problematic behaviour and its
direct encouragement of failure of interoperability has been
explained. Is there any actual useful reason to encourage it, thus
constructing a loophole the size of an eight-lane freeway tunnel?


- d.