robweir.com — On Friday July 13th, INCITS V1 met via teleconference for 3 hours but failed to reach a 2/3 consensus necessary to recommend an "Approval, with comments" position on Microsoft "Office Open XML" (OOXML) document specification.
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toddffwJul 16, 2007
OOXML cannot be implemented by anyone other than Microsoft due to the fact that they included long-standing Office97 bugs in the "standard" == !open<a class="user" href="http://www.noooxml.org/">http://www.noooxml.org/</a>
gcnaddictJul 16, 2007
I have a good reason *to* use it.:It was designed by a company which developed what could be the best office suite (Office 2007) to date. I know this'll get buried by the *nix and open office fanboys but seriously, once you use Office 2007, everything else seems clumsy.
trent310Jul 16, 2007
That stupid paper clip doesn't exist anymore.
julianrodJul 17, 2007
HTML?
harlowsmonkeysJul 17, 2007
Also: <a class="user" href="http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2007/Jan-30.html">http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2007/Jan-30.html</a>
init100Jul 17, 2007
How do you suggest that such powers would be implemented? Should they be able to sue any office software provider that didn't conform to the standard?
init100Jul 17, 2007
"ever think that maybe not everything needs to be OSS."Not open source, but open standards. Proprietary formats should be avoided like the plague.