OOXML fails to get fast track with ISO

[David Munson]

After doing a good bit of very quick and dirty reading and searching
on OOXML, I can only come to one conclusion: Microsoft is still
operating off of a plan established almost 10 years ago (the
"Halloween Documents"), and they're doing their level best to put an
end to the open source movement, and they're doing so in a very
sneaky, underhanded way.

I now understand fully why so many people hate MS.

On 9/4/07, Dazed_75 <lthielster at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 9/4/07, Craig White <craig at tobyhouse.com> wrote:
> > ODF remains the only international standard for documents as the
> > Microsoft proposal for their OOXML has failed to get acceptance...
> >
> >
> http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070904082606181
> >
> > and the Wall Street Journal online coverage...
> >
> >
> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118891067511516783.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
> >
> > --
> > Craig White <craig at tobyhouse.com>
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> Given the standards history in the USA on things like Metric Measures and
> paper sizes, I still worry M$ will hold out and make OOXML a defacto
> standard and ignore ISO
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