[Linux-aus] Interesting Article about INCITS vote

[Administrator]

"...The seven nay votes do not necessarily denote opposition to OOXML as a 
standard, although IBM's position on that matter is certainly part of the 
public record...

By patenting a layout element, IBM contends, Microsoft may be forcing a 
standard for which its own development team is the principal, to depend not 
on vendor-neutral technology but upon the will - and the existence - of one 
company...

IBM's argument could be the standards-body equivalent of lawyers for the 
defense sewing among the jury seeds for reasonable doubt. Today, it appears 
some of those seeds may have germinated."

http://www.betanews.com/article/Not_Enough_INCITS_Voters_Recommend_Microsoft_OOXML_to_ISO/1186792876
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