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31 May 09
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When did IBM learn that Microsoft would not implement Excel spreadsheet formulas in OpenDocument Formats ("ODF") v. 1.1 the same way OpenOffice.org does? And why does that timing matter?
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Why then did IBM wait nearly seven months, until May 3, 2009 — after Microsoft's ODF 1.1 native support was coded in Office 2007 SP2 — to mount the Big Blue attack on Microsoft's ODF 1.1 implementation of formulas?
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If the IBM goal were in fact interoperability via ODF 1.1 between Microsoft Office and other ODF implementations, would it not have been more timely for IBM to raise its formula stink before the Office 2007 ODF support was coded so that Microsoft management might have been persuaded to do formulas as OpenOffice.org does, back when there was still time to influence the decision?
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One might reasonably infer from such circumstances that ODF interoperability was far less important to IBM than was preserving its ability to attack the quality of Microsoft's ODF support after it was hard-coded. Or put another way, IBM appears in this instance to be more committed to double standards than to ODF interoperability.
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