is where open file formats come in. As our lives become increasingly defined by electronic records, there needs to be
https://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/06/file-format-timeline.html#comment-184786
now under the Fast Track Process & all standardization Bodies need to Vote on It. You can see a File format Timeline here. Common Interoperable Decodable Public standards ( called as Free Standa...
https://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/06/file-format-timeline.html#comment-157700
You may be interested in this article. http://bit.ly/TQO2Vh New file format options in the new Office
https://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/06/file-format-timeline.html#comment-76327
Previous events to mention would be: - TeX and LaTeX anf troff: Knuth, Lamport and Kernighan were very aware their systems were document interchange formats - SGML in 1986 - HTML in 1991 - The va...
https://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/06/file-format-timeline.html#comment-59411
Kontrolle über Dokumentenformate zu verschaffen. Rob Weir hat in einem älteren, sehr lesenswerten Blog-Eintrag beschrieben, mit welchen Winkelzügen Microsoft sein Office-Monopol zu schützen
https://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/06/file-format-timeline.html#comment-42974
sorry, but Microsoft has a long history of doing this. Internet
Explorer for Mac was discontinued. Why because of Apples safari
program.
Windows media player was discontinued. why, because o...
https://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/06/file-format-timeline.html#comment-1214
It is hard to make generalities about the Lotus binary file formats. Remember, Freelance Graphics and WordPro were both acquisitions and each came with their own binary formats, with different de...
https://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/06/file-format-timeline.html#comment-831
So, from what Wesley says (correct me if I'm wrong), IBM has not
released the specifications of the binary file formats for SmartSuite
or Notes.
From your experience in working at IBM on...
https://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/06/file-format-timeline.html#comment-830
StarOffice before 1999? Sorry, I just don't know any details about
their work before OpenOffice 1.0.
Since XML became a W3C
standard in 1998, any StarOffice version before then could not...
https://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/06/file-format-timeline.html#comment-829
Where's StarOffice in this? People were using StarOffice before OO
1.0.
I bet it had a different file format and you're
embarrased to admit it :)
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It is certainly an archaic construct, though it rings true in my ear. A notable use, in the first person, and one that lingers in my ear is Paul Scofield's Thomas More in the movie "A Man for All...
https://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/06/file-format-timeline.html#comment-827
"then you may have your will of them"
Awkward phrase. The
usual phrase is "then you may have your way with them", connoting
sexual rapaciousness. Other choices might be "then you may ben...
https://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/06/file-format-timeline.html#comment-826
Point taken, Ed and Rob.
I've heard also, from another IBMer
whose name I don't recall, make a similar point about IBM OS/2 2.x and
later, that to release it as Open Source, would leave ...
https://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/06/file-format-timeline.html#comment-825
"Unfortunately, you cannot save the workbook in the new Office
Open XML Formats. Instead, to retain the functionality, you need to
save the workbook in the Excel 97-2003 (Biff8) file
form...
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>No, this time they will stick. https://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/06/file-format-timeline.html#comment-823
>It's just that MSOOXML is not
>the same as EOOXML and will probably
> go through several
versions as a
>result of service packs and product
Echoing what Ed said, making a commercial product, especially an old one, open source is a huge undertaking from the IP perspective. With a new code base, it is easier. For example, I worked on L...
https://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/06/file-format-timeline.html#comment-822
Oh, yes, I was wrong; I meant Office 2008 (Mac).
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Wesley,
It seems like I might have commented on your thought
somewhere else before, but I can't find it.
At this point in
their lifecycle, posting the SmartSuite products as ope...
https://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/06/file-format-timeline.html#comment-820
I think Lotus (a division of IBM, now) would be perfectly happy
never to sell another copy of SmartSuite;
Well, if IBM
decides that the SmartSuite source tree is much too good to ...
https://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/06/file-format-timeline.html#comment-819
Speaking of MS so-called interoperability, have a good laugh reading
this
: https://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/06/file-format-timeline.html#comment-818
http://blogs.msdn.com/scaravajal/archive/2007/06/28/excel-2007-add-in-for-syncing-with-sharepoint.aspx