Intense interest in Microsoft Office standard

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The underlying question remains this. Is standards-setting a judicial or a political process? Even if it is a judicial process, should such a process ignore politics, or be informed by it?

I beg to differ. The underlying question is, "what is the desired output of the standards process?"

That, itself, is indisputbly a political question. Until we can agree on objectives, though, discussions of means are at best inefficient and at worst totally pointless.

I suspect that a great deal of the noise on this subject has resulted from people arguing means as a proxy for ends, and thus wasting time talking past each other.

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