:More on PDF vs. Microsoft's "XML Paper Specification"
More on PDF vs. Microsoft's "XML Paper Specification" Jul 2, 2007, 21 :45 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (8521 reads) (Other stories by Andy Updegrove)
"Andrew Updegrove, cofounder of Gesmer Updegrove LLP and editor of the ConsortiumInfo.Org blog--as well as one of the leading opponents to Microsoft’s Open XML standardization effort--issued a dire prediction:
"'If OOXML (Office Open XML), and now Microsoft XML Paper Specification, each sail through Ecma and are then adopted by ISO/IEC JTC1, then I think that we might as well declare 'game over' for open standards...'"
