On Sunday 13 April 2008 08:47 pm, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On 13-Apr-08, at 8:20 PM, Rony wrote: > >>> First, stop using closed data formats. Use Open Document > >>> fornats for Writer, Spreadsheet and Presentation. Send your > >>> files as pdf to those > >>> who use closed softwares. > >> > >> the problem is that ISO now says that OOXML is an (open?) > >> standard > > > > Any links to the same? > > links? you *are* on planet earth aren't you? Anyway, if you are > just visiting, the International Standards Organisation on this > planet has just blessed OOXML as *the* open standard.
not yet. ISO has approved setting up a commitiee for reconciling the differences between the various factions and resolving technical issues. Further it will be on RAND terms which means that arbit conditions will be imposed on all. Most of the standards organisations are nothing but menagerie of companies creating their own cesspools. You cant get the specs of many critical standards. If you do you will find it filled with patent bombs, reading it once will bar you for life from implementing that spec. This balkanisation has been on for quite some time and is becoming visible only now as connectivity starts creeping into everything. You would be paying a good 30% of the cost to patents. In the pc, $5 for bios $5 for ddr $? for vgabios (which u use on linux only to view the boot messages) $?? for 2d and 3d algos implemented in the graphics and proly the same amount for all the gizmos in your life. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
