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: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]) (3983 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..."

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Yep, corruption seems to spill everywher ...   Re: oh please!   
Little Horn
Mar 29, 2008, 01:59:37
 
The quote below is from the pdf Groklaw  ...   Ironic.   
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