On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 11:55:57AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: [...] > I did see a blog post somewhere recently from someone griping about how > unnecessarily dense, complex, and impenetrable the Microsoft Office > document formats are, to such an extent that it makes implementing > support for them difficult verging on impossible [...] OOXML's spec is roughly 6000 pages compared to roughly 900 for LibreOffice's ODF [1]. The reference also describes how the ISO approval process was highly controversial. > suggestion that Microsoft chose that development path on purpose, > specifically in order to make it harder for anyone else to interoperate > properly with those formats. This is called "decommoditizing protocols" [2] and is a well-known practice Microsoft is very adept at. Cheers [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standardization_of_Office_Open_XML [2] https://levien.com/free/decommoditizing.html -- tomas
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