Moshe Goldfarb <brick.n.straw@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 14:26:55 -0800, Tim Smith wrote:
>
>> In article <1798097.zJsgbpZHRT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Microsoft's OXML standard debate hots up
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>| “OXML needs a thorough review before India can commit anything. Rushing
>>>| through the 6,000 page specification through the fast track process by ISO
>>>| is
>>>| not going to help. The ODF standard was approved after six years of
>>>| intensive
>>>| study,†said Venkatesh Hariharan, co-founder Open Source Foundation of
>>>| India
>>>| and member of Knowledge Commons, a Knowledge rights group.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Microsofts_OXML_standard_debate_hots_up/ar
>>> ticleshow/2768249.cms
>>
>> How does he get six years? Standardization started at the end of 2002,
>> and the spec was complete in mid 2005. In late 2005 it was sent to ISO,
>> where it was approved after six months, in mid 2006.
>>
>> So, if you count from the start of standardization in OASIS, it was 3.5
>> years. But if what he is counting is the time ISO examined it (which is
>> what it sounds like he's looking at for OOXML), then it was six *months*.
>
> Another Schestowitz hit and run.
Where is Kier saying "prove it"? As you point him to the numbers already
shown ....
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