Comments on: Texans up to no good https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/03/23/texans-up-to-no-good/ Sat, 28 Mar 2009 03:50:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Ken Cavanaugh https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/03/23/texans-up-to-no-good/#comment-533031 Sat, 28 Mar 2009 03:50:44 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/03/23/texans-up-to-no-good/#comment-533031 Actually the text of the bill looks fairly reasonable. But Microsoft’s OOXML will probably
not satisfy the bill, due to the lack of ANY implementations of the actual OOXML standard.
Even Microsoft does not fully implement the standard that they railroaded through the
ISO. The OOXML standard is also very long, poorly written, and basically corresponds to
a serialization of the internal Microsoft Office data structutes into XML.

By contrast, ODF is a simpler specification, fully implemented by multiple vendors,
which is the main point. Search for Tim Bray’s blogs to find lots of details about
the OOXML vs. ODF battles.

All of this is also very clear in the /. comments. I don’t think the Texas politicians
deserve criticism for this bill.

]]> By: Bob https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/03/23/texans-up-to-no-good/#comment-533030 Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:11:50 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/03/23/texans-up-to-no-good/#comment-533030 Typical. As much as I miss Austin, I don’t miss any of Texas’ pathetic excuse for ‘government.’ Chicago is at least as corrupt but at a fundamental level I understand basic graft. Texas pols aren’t satisfied with lining their pockets and grabbing power, they have to add their special brand of baffling batshit crazy, like Michelle Bachmann Overdrive.

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