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A Standards Game for a Summer's Day
Aug 6, 2007, 15 :00 UTC (1 Talkback[s]) (5660 reads)

(Other stories by Andy Updegrove)

"Those on both sides of the ODF vs. OOXML competition are always accusing each other of spinning and misrepresenting each other's actions and statements. It's fair, and even important, for both sides to call each other out on actual misrepresentations, since the public is rarely, if ever, going to have first-hand knowledge to rely on. But when one side calls the other out, how does the public know which one to believe?

"That's where what historian's call 'primary sources' come in--not second hand regurgitations and repackagings of what someone else said, but the words themselves that someone said or wrote, straight from the source, complete and unedited..."

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