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  1. Comment - Interview: Corel on Sun, Open Standards

    (Oct 20, 2005 - 8:26 AM)

    - "we will welcome broader adoption of open standards, whether its ODF, XML, or other formats like PDF"

    Did they realize that the more office suites will support one of them the faster this will happen, for the benefit of all alternatives suites ? (making those alternatives able to claim their openess againts vendor lock in, and their viability, ...).
    And it could only be ODF: "XML" is nothing but a generic name, not an office document standard (ODF is XML, btw), pdf doesn't suite for spreadsheets and the like (think about equations).

    So actually Corel want to play alone rather than joining the grouped front of alternatives office suites (both free, abiword, gnumeric, koffice, openoffice, and commercials like textmaker or staroffice).

    It's unfortunate, since (they even aknowldged this on the interview) making alternatives strongers by alliance just help all of them. They said that the hype around staroffice benefits them, so what, why don't they go this way ?

    They basically did got this interview only because of the ODF momentum, but be assured that the press won't cover them for a long time if they only have to say "we don't support it".

    - Did RC released that ODF is actually XML ? he present them like exclusive formats

    - To count them as "the second one", they only aknowledge the number of StarOffice sold. But did they realized that OpenOffice is basicaly the same product, and because it's free, is downloaded massively ?
    clearly, they'll loose soon here, without even noticing what hapenned.