bbgruff <bbgruff@xxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> "Activists in the Boycott Novell forum have exposed the more than 5,500 page
> document in PDF, HTML, Microsoft spreadsheet, and various other formats on
> their website. Even though OOXML was certified as an ISO standard under
> turbulent and unsteady circumstances, ISO has been keeping the comprehensive
> documentation under wraps"
This cannot be a legitimate use of process. Heads must surely begin to
roll soon.
>
> http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/online/news/ooxml_documentation_iso_concerned
>
> Interesting - threats of copyright abuse, etc. (Not piracy?)
>
> I won't pass an opinion, since on this I simply don't know what I'm talking
> about.
> HOWEVER, let me say that I WAS under the impression that this document is
> supposed to be a STANDARD, and an OPEN standard at that?
> It's name is Office Open XML, I thought?
>
> Can somebody (anybody!) explain to me what the hell is the use of a Standard,
> and particularly an Open one, that I'm not allowed to see????
>
> In short, what the hell is going on here?
>
In short, corruption.
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