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[News] OpenDocument Format Can Dominate Through Use, Not Just the ISO

  • Subject: [News] OpenDocument Format Can Dominate Through Use, Not Just the ISO
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 17:25:46 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Winning the OpenDocument vs. OpenXML war

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| While the standardisation war is absolutely crucial, I firmly believe 
| that the only way this battle can be won is by making sure that people 
| use OpenDocument in their everyday life. 
| 
| [...]
| 
| Basically, members of the free software community can and should do 
| more than just watch the fight and rest on their laurels: the more 
| people that fight, the more likely we are to win this battle, which 
| is anything but over. We should all keep in mind that OpenDocument 
| might become, even in the long term, a “fringe format” that nobody 
| actually uses. Microsoft’s monopoly on file formats, if that becomes 
| the case, would create unimaginable damage.
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/editorial_019

Key setback for OOXML yesterday.


Yesterday:

OOXML Approval Vote Fails in INCITS

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| The overall vote is not, to me, a surprise.  Leaving all politics or opinions 
| aside on whether OOXML should become an ISO/IEC standard when ODF already 
| exists, I do not believe that OOXML is in good enough shape to recommend a 
| yes vote, with or without comments.   
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http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20070810112044631

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