More on PDF vs. Microsoft's "XML Paper Specification"

Jul 02, 2007, 21:45 (0 Talkback[s])
(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...'"

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