IBM's New "I.T.Standards Policy" - and a Call for Wider Reform | Linux Today

IBM’s New “I.T.Standards Policy” – and a Call for Wider Reform

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Andy Updegrove
Sep 29, 2008

“While IBM’s standards activities are formidible, IBM still
controls only one vote within any single standards organization. As
a result, it will be significant to see whether it is successful in
inspiring other companies (and particularly those that were its
allies in the ODF-OOXML competition, such as Google and Oracle) to
make statements of active support for these same principles.”


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“The Linux Foundation applauds this action, and
supports IBM’s call for raising the bar in the standards
development process”


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Andy Updegrove

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