Jerry Feldman wrote: > On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 09:44:51 -0400 > James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070904082606181 >> > > Thanks for posting this. > Just as a background. There is an industry standard document format > used by OpenOffice.org and others called Open Document Format that is > currently an official international (ISO) standard. Microsoft has > refused to adopt this in Microsoft Office and instead came up with > their OOXML format. I'm not going to go into details on why OOXML is > not good, but recently Microsoft has been trying to get their OOXML > approved as an International Standard. In MS Word, .docx files are > OOXML. >
Not only that, but they've been blatantly cheating, to get it approved, using, among other things, stuffing the the national commitees with business partners, taking control of meetings and violating procedure rules, to deny a voice to opponents, using bribes to encourage support etc. > Note that Groklaw is a web site that tends to focus on legal issues > around OpenSource. > > They cover a lot more than just legal stuff, though that is the main focus. -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
