[Discuss] ODF is now an ISO standard

[Paul Nienaber]

But Microsoft has what attempts to be a non-conforming C 
implementation.  Watch them do the same, much like how there are Office 
variants that theoretically use the same file formats, but aren't 
forwards-compatible.  What we need is a big push of things like OOo 
*now* so that Microsoft will appear to be the one with the broken 
product, not vice-versa.

~p

Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> Details at Andy Updegrove's blog:
> http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20060503080915835 
>
>
> European governments and businesses pay strong attention to ISO 
> standards.
> Also there was fear that MS would somehow try to stop this adoption of 
> ODF
> as an ISO standard through their recent joining of the committee 
> overseeing
> the adoption process.
>
> Thus, this is encouraging news indeed for OpenOffice, Koffice and other
> office applications that use the ODF standard and discouraging news for
> MS with their many (!) different non-standard MS Office formats.
>
> Alan
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