Has OOXML Broken the British Standards Institute?

Courtesy Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Fri, 05/02/2008 - 06:47

Standards are supposed to be about a process of creating points of reference that people can rely upon, arrived at through a process of careful honing and consensus.

Against this background, the manner in which Microsoft's OOXML has been put through the ISO has been astonishing.


 

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