15 Apr
2008
15 Apr
'08
10:42 a.m.
2008/4/15 Nishit Dave stargazer.dave@gmail.com:
AFAIK, nobody has standardized what Open Standard means (and who standardizes the standardizer and all such enigmatic thougths), and nobody has a copyright, business patent or trademark on that phrase. So if Microsoft chooses to call OOXML an Open Standard or Divine Banner or whatever, they can, and their pet bloggers and wikipedia stuffers will proclaim it to be the Truth (TM).
There seemed to be a lot of definitions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_standard
Does OOXML pass any of these (other than just Microsoft's definition) ?
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