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Re: [News] OOXML Apprently Rejected by ISO!

Linonut <linonut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> After takin' a swig o' grog, Mark Kent belched out this bit o' wisdom:
> 
>> The length of the standard is directly proportion to how long it takes
>> to study it properly, though.  In some meetings, we've spent long
>> periods just arguing about one or other word in a sentence, so imagine
>> that problem multiplied by 6,000 on a page by page basis.  I do not see
>> how any standards body could possibly consider adopting something like
>> this, ever.
> 
> Oh, I imagine a Josef Stalin figure could obtain a consensus quickly
> enough.
> 

Well, I suppose, given the right kinds of incentive...

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