Quoting Richard Bos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
So it's better to have 2 different standards definitions for e.g. for speed
km/h s miles/h - temperature celsius vs fahrenheit, lenght, like: 1 meter and
1 inch?
Ask NASA about the latter. Didn't they loose a satelite because the mixed
meters with inches or something like that.
From this alone one can see that it is better to have 1 standard to
be used by
many applications. Now this gives total freedom to the customer.
If Microsoft is willing to commit to a standard, and therefore not
change the format in which documents are saved without first getting
ISO approval for the changes, great! Microsoft may get to claim to be
the originator of the standard, but I expect it will not be able to
change that standard quite so easily if it is ISO recognized.
Remember that one of Microsoft's biggest advantages is that it
develops its own standard and then continually changes it, thus making
it difficult for people not using Microsoft products to share files,
view media on the net, etc. With an established standard that
Microsoft agrees to adhere to, everybody is, in the long run, better
off.
John.
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