On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 06:30:36PM +0000 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
Colm MacCarthaigh thought:
>> So what if MS get an ISO standard? That'd just show how relatively
> worthless an ISO standard without any context is anyway. It sounds like
> it's just part of a marketting war and people want to brandish the "ours
> is ISO standardised" tag-line, as if that means something. Mneh :-)
If MS get their format registered as an ISO standard, they can ignore the
open document format. If they don't they will have to be seen to be
ignoring the registered format or support it. Either of the latter allows
us to promote OpenOffice and others as being compliant with mandated ISO
standards and therefore better than MS Office...
Conor
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