On Tue, Nov 29, at 11:23:25PM, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > No, MS announced they were going to register their Office 12 format with > the European ECMA organisation > (http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/66699). This is not ISO!
According to David Wheeler (author of the Linux Secure Programming-Howto) MS Open XML format is not standardised to the extent of OpenDocument and is incompatible with GPL applications. http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/why-opendocument-won.html Registration with the European ECMA doesn't mean that MS has declared some sort of alliance with free software, GPL or OpenDocument. -- keith.
