Maybe so but the 1st steps have been made and i think that if the ISO committee where serious they'd turn it down saying to MS that they cannot accept something that they cannot audit themselves _or_ that a 3rd party cannot audit (thinking of ISO9000 accreditation's for business etc here).
Also if more city councils set similar conditions for document formats then MS would find it harder to win contracts. As the article said "We are having a few barriers (with government contracts)". but yes they might try to open as little as they think they can get away with and then it'll be the ISO committee and government (city councils etc) to say sorry not good enough. On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 21:20, yuri wrote: > I've heard it discussed elsewhere that even if they "open" the xml > schema thingy, it'll still have large chunks of proprietary binary > data embedded in the files. > > On 29/11/05, dave wrote: > > Just read tonight an article in the Computerworld where MS are going to > > put their document formats up for ISO recognition (due to the > > Massachusetts city council saying they want their documents to be based > > on open standards). > > > > thus the formats of documents will be much more open a other developers > > wil be able to create and access these with less problems than in the > > past. And maybe this will see true compatibility with MS document formats > > with open office in the future. > > > > Me thinks that open/free standards have just won another battle against > > the monolith. > > > > And well really it could reduce reliance on the MS office suite too for > > small medium business. > > -- > ** WARNING to mailing list repliers ** > Gmail over-rides "Reply-To:" field. Check your "To:" address before > sending reply to this post.
