On Tuesday 15 April 2008 04:04 pm, Nishit Dave wrote: > On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 3:55 PM, jtd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No. It's not a standard. It is a proposed standard which will > > have to be cleared by various regular ISO committies and the > > newly formed ones (read my previous mail), before becoming a > > standard. > > > > OTOH ODF is already an approved standard. > > AFAIK, nobody has standardized what Open Standard means (and who > standardizes the standardizer and all such enigmatic thougths), and > nobody has a copyright, business patent or trademark on that > phrase. So if Microsoft chooses to call OOXML an Open Standard or > Divine Banner or whatever, they can, and their pet bloggers and > wikipedia stuffers will proclaim it to be the Truth (TM).
True. For now it's not even a standard, never mind any other criteria by which one may choose to classify a standard. Of course M$ will always have their spin on everything, so Open Standard means just that - a non standard open to interpretation by everyone and the mickysoft puppet. Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
