I hope this link helped in understanding the potential problems also. http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/node/2110
On Sat, 2007-06-09 at 23:48 +0800, Harish Pillay wrote: > To all interested members: > > The IT Standards Committee has a technical subcommittee that looks > at the XML standards. They are the ones who filed a set of contradictions > to the proposed Microsoft/ECMA OOXML standard to become an ISO > standard as well. > > Microsoft Singapore is putting into place people to lobby for the ITSC to > vote in favour of this standard which is due by September 2nd 2007. > > If you are keen to ensure that their proposed standard is indeed fully > open and available to one and all with no issue, I would encourage > you to contact the ITSC to become members of the XML TC. > > We need people who are not driven by and beholden to the Microsoft > mindset to give a fair assessment of their proposed standard at the TC > level. > > If you have any interest in this effort please email me privately. > > Thanks. > > Harish > _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
