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Computerworld - ISO moves OpenXML to ballot phase
Eric Lae is reporting that " According to an e-mail sent Saturday by Lisa Rachjel, the secretariat of ISO’s Joint Technical Committee (JTC-1) on Information Technology, the Open XML proposal , along with comments and criticism by nations that...
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts
These famous words, written some 230 years ago by Edmund Burke ("Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol", 1777), came to mind today when I saw this Guardian Online story ... From cradle to grave, your files available to a cast of thousands. The Guardian's...
Cutting corners - the realpolitik of ODF standardisation?
I made a comment at an event in Brussels and quite a few people have asked for more information so I thought I'd post here. I mentioned that in my opinion, Sun were completely aware that ODF wasn't sufficiently defined to support spreadsheet interoperability...
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