Putting Andy Updegrove to Bed (without his supper) | Universal Interoperabilit... - The Diigo Meta page

• 06 Feb 08
  

  Gary Edwards

  Great article from the Universal Interoperability Council arguing the case for CDF as a universally interoperable format capable of fully representing desktop productivity environment documents. The UIC arguments are of course opposed by IBM and the lawyer for OASIS, Andy Updegrove.

  IBM OASIS cdf interop odf ooxml opendocument openxml

  • In late 2007, an article by OASIS attorney Andy Updegrove claimed that W3C Compound Document Formats: [i] are non-editable formats; [ii] are not designed for conversions to other formats; and [iii] are therefore unsuitable as office formats. Updegrove could not have been more wrong.

     

    But unfortunately, the erroneous Updegrove article was widely publicized by the usual occupants of the IBM cheering section ⁽¹⁾ in the stadium where the latest big vendor game for the Incompatible File Format Cup is being played, IFFC Games Stadium.

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