[Linux-aus] [Osia-discuss] ooxml review

[Con Zymaris]

On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 10:27:11PM +0930, Janet Hawtin wrote:
> http://www.arstdesign.com/articles/OOXML-is-defective-by-design.html
> thanks paul
> via slashdot
> its a wee ripper


It's interesting how the mainstream IT press has picked up on the vibe
too:

http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/server/microsoft_fud_watch_82407.html

  Paoli and Robertson talk like Microsoft will make concessions—that it
  will work with ISO and the voting bodies to modify OOXML. Hogwash. The
  primary Ecma standards certification process had been completed before
  Microsoft released OOXML. The company is going to modify the format now,
  just as major customers adopt it? Let's be realistic. If Microsoft were
  to make changes for ISO, what about the standard adopted by Ecma?
  Supposedly, the body controls the standard. So, what? Microsoft will
  make modifications such that there will be two OOXML standards? I don't
  think so.

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