Sun Asks China to Merge its Doc Format With ODF 114
christian.einfeldt writes "Sun's Chairman Scott McNealy has asked the world's most populous nation to merge its Uniform Office Format with the Open Document Format. Tech lawyer Andy Updegrove thinks that McNealy would not have flown to China and taken this chance of rejection if McNealy didn't think that there was a good likelihood of success."
Nobody in China will use either (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:I can't wait (Score:4, Interesting)
So if the people making this decision in China are like my sister and father, all they need do is offer them a discounted Office and they'll go with Microsoft's XML format, simply because there's the perception that they'll be getting a discount.
Harmonize or Adopt? (Score:1, Interesting)
If China 'harmonizes' with it, thats a bad thing, it creates yet another format.
Probably Because (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Numbers game (Score:3, Interesting)