Searching for Openness in Microsoft's OOXML and Finding Contradictions
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| ...I learned this week that despite Microsoft's promises of a new
| openness and its assertions regarding interoperability for its
| OOXML (formerly known as OpenXML and also known as EOOXML) and
| despite having offered it as a *standard*, it seems that it's
| another case of promises, promises. From what I've been reading,
| which I'll share with you, I think it's time to ask ourselves
| some serious questions: does OOXML really qualify as a standard?
| Or is it yet another monopoly-enabler in the guise of a standard?
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2007011720521698
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