As many of you know, Microsoft is attempting to "fast-track" its
Office Open XML specification (OOXML) through the ISO process to
become another standard for office documents, competing with
OpenDocument. The first step in the ISO process is the
“contradiction” phase, which has a deadline for objections of 5
February 2007.
On 18 January, Groklaw published a detailed article titled
"Searching for Openness in Microsoft’s OOXML and Finding
Contradictions", which explains the ISO process and adds:
“Because of the apparently unresolvable contradictions being
discovered, the questions being asked are whether ISO should
reject EOOXML from the fast-track process and instead use the
regular process, and whether, if there can be no resolution of
some of the contradictions discovered, ISO should accept the
specification at all..."
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2007011720521698
The page links to some GrokDoc wiki pages which contain details
about some of the contradictions.
--Jean
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