:President of EU Academy for Standardisation Criticizes OOXML
President of EU Academy for Standardisation Criticizes OOXML Mar 28, 2008, 19 :30 UTC (3 Talkback[s]) (4507 reads)
"Here's a story I wasn't expecting, but some of you more familiar with WTO rules perhaps were, a story that the president of the European Academy for Standardisation, Tineke Egyedi, is critical of OOXML being made a standard when ODF exists already, and she believes duplicative standards conflict with WTO rules:
"Egyedi, a researcher of technical standards, at the Technical University in Delft, the Netherlands, doubts whether ISO should have a taken into consideration a second standard for electronic documents at all..."