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Story: Microsoft: OpenDocument is too slow

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Gee, I hope MS programmers aren't as bereft of logic as Mr. Yates. Even if one grants that one application that uses ODF is slow, that doesn't imply that ODF is inherently inefficient.

Not even the study's author broad jumped to that conclusion. (For that matter, it's not clear what one can infer from the time and memory usage for loading a blank document. I don't know about you, but I very rarely manipulate empty documents--what would be far more telling is how memory and time usage grows as a function of document size or complexity.)

The thing about ODF is that it's open. There are many word processors that use it. I dare say they vary in speed. If OpenOffice is gratuitously slow, someone will make a better ODF-capable program, and OpenOffice will fade away.

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