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CNN/Money: The Geek who Took on Microsoft

“In the early morning hours of May 3, a dramatic piece of news
out of Geneva began caroming through the online world: At long
last, Microsoft’s lock on the $9 billion office-application
business was facing a challenge.

“The development? An esoteric international standards body had
approved a new file standard–called OpenDocument format, or
ODF–for saving office documents…”


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