On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, Giuliano Colla wrote:

> Michael Van Canneyt ha scritto:
> > 
> > On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, Razvan Adrian Bogdan wrote:
> > 
> > > Do you think this is a good initiative ?
> > > Would it be in the community interest to standardize Office formats as ISO
> > > ?
> > >
> > > http://www.noooxml.org/petition
> > 
> > If you look at it, you'll see that many FPC devels have signed it already.
> > 
> > The idea is that there is already a ISO standard (the OpenOffice one) and
> > that there should be only 1 standard. There is no need for a second one.
> > 
> > M$ just tries to avoid having to write a import/export routine by
> > registering their own format as a standard.
> > 
> 
> The revers of the coin is: how can it be registered as an ISO standard and
> remain proprietary at the same time?
> Or I'm missing a point?

Why have 2 standards ?

Michael.

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