U.K. Standards Body Taken to Court Over OOXML | Linux Today

U.K. Standards Body Taken to Court Over OOXML

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 2, 2008

“The British Standards Institution has been taken to court by a
group of Unix users in an attempt to get the standards body to
recant its approval of Microsoft’s Office Open XML document
format.

“The UK Unix & Open Systems User Group said on Thursday that
the British Standards Institution’s controversial decision to vote
for approval of OOXML in a recent International Organization for
Standardization ballot followed a flawed decision-making
process…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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