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By Dale Vile

Published: Friday 04 April 2008


Name

Anonymous


Location

wisconsin


Occupation

developer


Comment

Even while Microsoft is promising interoperability and openness it is actively subverting the primary interoperability vehicle of the international computing community: the standards-setting process.

The question that should be on everyone's mind is, "If OOXML was truly an open standard, why did Microsoft need to use their political will to force the standard rather than open the standard for technical discussion."



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