Standards make open source political

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What exactly was the idiot that came up with this title thinking?

Standards, in this case OpenDocument Format (ISO 26300) versus the Open XML standard proposal (in ECMA: ISO/IEC JTC1) has little if anything to do with Open Source. This is just governments and businesses requiring a published standard for documents to adhere to (similar to SGML, JPEG, both ISO standards and ISO 9001 for Small to Medium Sided Companies). This has noting to do with a development process that allows one to read source code (as with Linux, BSD or Apache, among other projects).

Posted by: B.O.F.H.   Posted on: 02/26/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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