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[News] More Reasons Why OOXML is Not a Standard But a Proprietary Microsoft Format

  • Subject: [News] More Reasons Why OOXML is Not a Standard But a Proprietary Microsoft Format
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 10:16:37 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Standards Words

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| So, it is a document, a written description, not an embodiment in the form of 
| a product, that is standardized. Its aims are the "achievement of optimum 
| degree of order" and "promotion of optimum community benefits", and it is 
| achieved through consensus and consolidation.   
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http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/05/standards-words.html


Related:

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| ...we should take the lead in establishing a common
| approach to UI and to interoperability (of which OLE is only a part). Our
| efforts to date are focussed too much on our own apps, and only incidentally
| on the rest of the industry. We want to own these standards, so we should
| not participate in standards groups. Rather, we should call 'to me' to the
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| industry and set a standard that works now and is for everyone's
| benefit. We are large enough that this can work...
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                        -- Microsoft, internal memo

                        http://www.os2site.com/sw/info/comes/px09509.zip

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