John W. Kennedy a Ãcrit : > Gary Edwards wrote: > >> And what do they do with OpenDocument? They mark it acceptable as an >> open standard "pending" ratification by OASIS. > > >> Why is OpenDocument the only file format in the Commonwealth's list >> that requires ratification by an Open Standards Group? Yeah. You >> got it. It's a set up. And Open Source is the target. > > > Ummm.... I'm no expert on the day-to-day politics of Open Source, but > it seems to me they have the rather obvious justification that until > OASIS (or somebody, but OASIS is the one at bat now) ratifies > OpenDocument, it isn't any sort of standard in the first place. > > Sometimes a "pending" is just a "pending".
But then neither are the other proposed formats, except they somehow don't have to pass the same test to be considered "standards" Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot
