Standards divide European archives
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| When governments in Belgium, France, Germany, Norway, Denmark, Brazil
| and Croatia moved last year to convert some of their official
| documents to a new format called ODF, they thought they would be
| sidestepping an old rivalry among software vendors that have
| their own proprietary formats.
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http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/08/technology/docs.php
Related:
Packing The Court At The ISO?
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| ...P member countries ('participating member' countries) sending
| representatives, and I am interested to note the majority of
| their representatives are, as individuals, also Microsoft employees.
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| [...]
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| How can they not see that OOXML (ECMA 376) is unwanted by anyone outside of
| Microsoft? How about it Brian Jones? Are you really so desperate that you
| have to resort to that?
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http://lnxwalt.wordpress.com/2007/03/23/packing-the-court-at-the-iso/
Microsoft playing three card monte with XML conversion
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| Gary Edwards of the Open Document Foundation, a leading member
| of its technical committee, says Microsoft is playing proprietary
| games aimed at controlling XML file formats and preventing the
| Open Document Format from gaining a foothold.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=959
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