Re: [oiic-formation-discuss] Reason and example arguing for the use of an ODF (or XML) canonical form

["Peter Dolding" <oiaohm@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 5:55 AM, Radoslav Dejanović
<radoslav.dejanovic@opsus.hr> wrote:
> Dave Pawson wrote:
>
>>> And again, "Some Office" will not display a warning box because there's
>>> no force of this world that would force them to warn their users that
>>> there's a compatibility problem with that extension they've made.
>>
>> Which is a simple non-compliance.
>
> But, if Simple Office is holding 95% of the market, do you think that
> would really hurt them? Or, wouldn't their sales force spread the word
> of their product being even superior to the standard?
>
Remember that is exactly the line they used with RTF and W3C when they
expand it.

History will repeat unless we learn from it.

Peter Dolding