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This is a comment on news story: IBM, Google quietly supporting OOXML?
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Right on angryfirelord ! by: nycace36 
As IBM's Rob Weir writes in the ZDNet Talkback thread entitled 'More word games'
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The word 'support' can mean two different things, right? Support of something can mean, 'to provide technical capabilities for' or support can mean 'to promote the interests or cause of'.

In the first sense, at IBM, and Lotus before that, we have a long history of product support for Microsoft's poorly-documented and proprietary formats. But just as our support of DOC, XLS and PPT does not imply endorsement of these formats for standardization, any product capabilities related to OOXML should similarly not be seen as endorsements of these formats.
Posted by: Rob Weir Posted on: 01/21/08
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http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12558-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=43385&messageID=801832&start=0

Is FUD-Foley going back to her M$hill ways?


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