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Linux.com: "Updegrove says his introduction to open source included his unwitting participation in a seminal licensing discussion.

"It was probably in 1993 that Bob Scheifler, the executive director of the X Consortium, emailed me to say that he needed a new kind of license to make the software available to whoever needed it." Updegrove and Scheifler went back and forth a few times to get the verbiage on the new license just right."

By Tina Gasperson on November 12, 2008 Share Comments Attorney Andrew Updegrove specializes in technology, intellectual property, and standards.

Redmond Developer News: "The Office Open XML (OOXML) file format is probably destined to be an international standard under International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC).

And Andy Updegrove, for one, is not happy about it."

Andy Updegrove has the news that South Africa has filed an official appeal, protesting the approval of OOXML, and the action means that OOXML is now in limbo until the appeal is decided.

I wonder if this is why Microsoft suddenly decided to support ODF, to avoid being shut out completely pending the appeal.