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On Custom Schemas

On Custom Schemas 06/18/2004 12:22 AM

Not so long ago, I wrote a piece about open document formats. Just today there was an interesting (as always) follow- up from Jon Udell, but what I wanted to address here is Dare Obasanjo’s take, which is pretty well the Microsoft party line (not that Dare’s always a party-line guy): the Office software and its document formats are winners because they allow the use of custom schemas for office documents. That’s more important, they say, than the dodgy licensing terms and the missing pieces. I used to believe that custom schemas for office documents were generally a good idea, but I no longer do. Here’s why...




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