TuxTeam.com » Uncategorized http://tuxteam.com IT Life & Linux Thoughts Fri, 13 Aug 2010 01:16:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 OOXML Debacle http://tuxteam.com/2008/10/09/ooxml-debacle/ http://tuxteam.com/2008/10/09/ooxml-debacle/#comments Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:37:36 +0000 David http://matir.wordpress.com/?p=69 There’s a lot of issues going on around OOXML these days.  Specifically, there’s alledged copyright violations by posting the OOXML specs by members of the Boycott Novell group.  I want to address a specific issue: why is something applying for ISO standardization so secret?

International standards (e.g., ISO) should be open and royalty-free.  It’s ridiculous if there’s a “standard” that’s locked in to a single vendor.  Can someone explain any sanity to this situation?

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