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Re: [News] Pressure on Microsoft to Embrace and Learn from ODF

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 ]
>>| â??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,â?? 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.



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