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ISO, Ecma and GPL
ISO was taken hostage by IBM and Sun and rushed into accepting an incomplete standard.

A standard which could be used to hold back adoption of the leading Office Suite by not supporting the features which gives it an advantage over the competition. Geez, ODF 1.2 is still not accepted and a formula language is still MIA. For an office standard, no less!

OOXML is a much more complete standard (it actually has a formula language).

We need both. We need to ensure that Microsoft faces some real competition. We also need to ensure that a single standard is not used to hold back development, as could easily have happened with ODF alone. ODF was based on the then current features of OpenOffice.

ISO and Ecma is what we got. They are not evil just because they accept a standards proposal from a company you dislike or distrust. Get over it. They judge the proposals on their merit. Only in the case of ODF they accepted a sub-standard standard, obviously. There's two sides to this coin.

GPL is an ideology. It may be suitable for some projects and products, but it is not the end-all solution. If you believe in the ideology, fine. But it certainly does show some fatigue atm.
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Read what I said  Richard Flude | 07/01/09
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RE: Will Stallman C# warning fall flat?  Icozinha | 06/30/09
ISO, Ecma and GPL  honeymonster | 06/30/09
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