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