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Microsoft packing ISO meetings to push through their OOXML "standard"
march 2007 by jmason
'SC34 suddenly has a lot of new ['participating member' countries] sending representatives, and I am interested to note the majority of their representatives are, as individuals, also Microsoft employees.' up to their old dirty tricks, then
microsoft
dirty-tricks
ooxml
openoffice
via:simonphipps
open-source
iso
standards
politics
march 2007 by jmason
EOOXML objections - Grokdoc
january 2007 by jmason
a concise, but complete, list of objections to Microsoft's proposed standardisation of the MS Word file format as an ISO standard. a strong case; tey even invent a new date representation, and treat 1900 as a leap year (MS vs. the Gregorian calendar!)
microsoft
proprietary
iso
ecma
ms-word
ms-office
openoffice
formats
interchange
interoperability
standards
january 2007 by jmason
OOoAuthors.org - OOo as gaeilge
september 2005 by jmason
The first full localisation build of OpenOffice.org in Irish
gaeilge
irish
ireland
openoffice
linux
open-source
september 2005 by jmason
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