"Open"

Announcing openXMLDeveloper.org

We've got a new organization we're announcing calledopenXMLDeveloper.org. No organization is good unless you put the word"open" right at the front, so we've got it right out there. In fact,you know, these are three of my favorite words, "open," "XML" and"developer," and that's all in one organization. And so this is anumber of companies coming together, Microsoft of course played aleadership role, but we have Intel and Apple and dozens of institutionsthat care about this idea of these formats being very well documentedso lots of people can write applications that can read and write thesethings. There's a Web site that's sort of the place people get togetherto make comments, and have the resources, talk about when meetings makesense. So, it's a real community, and we think this is an importantstep that we've taken to make sure that people feel comfortable inbuilding on these formats.

http://www.microsoft.com/billgates/speeches/2006/03-21OfficeDevCon.asp