[kplato] Fwd: RE: license and patent issues with PMXML

[Raphael Langerhorst]

On Thursday 18 November 2004 11:34, Dag Andersen wrote:
> On Mandag 08 november 2004 22:39, Raphael Langerhorst wrote:
> > On Monday 08 November 2004 19:39, Mark Tombs wrote:
> > > On Monday 08 November 2004 17.15, ian_d_stewart at bankone.com
> > > wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > I'm not very familiar with any project management software (ok, a
> > little bit of Mr. Project with 0.9 version, but nothing serious).
> > So I'm also not very familiar with requirements to file formats.
> > But reading the posts here it seems to me that the format is
> > somewhat a bit restricted.
> >
> > I see 2 possible solutions to this (or 3):
> >
> > a) contact these people to improve PMXML
>
> IMVHO, I think they probably have met their objective, to enable
> data exchange between PMs. They didn't intend to save *all* data
> needed to recalculate. It doesn't mean extending it is out of the
> question, though.
>
> > b) create own (OASIS??) standard or find another standard we can
> > use
>
> Personally I would have liked this better, but it is of course a
> lot of work. Anyone?

David, would you be potentially willing to do the official work 
involved if we come up with a standard?

Personally I think project management software has some importance 
although it is not used by every end users. Still, all people should 
be able to share project plans without being bound to one specific 
application. Thus I would also like to have some sort of officially 
accepted standard, whatever that may be (and OASIS being an obvious 
option as most of KOffice is going to be OASIS compliant).

Regards,
Raphael

>
> > c) stick to what we have now
>
> Well, I think this is what's going to happen, short term, at least.
>
> > Regards,
> > Raphael

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