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Then why on earth
Do Microsoft produce a fair number of downloadable documents in pdf form?

Erm, didn't you also say in other posts that pdf wasn't a real standard? And now you are including it favorably in the same sentence as .doc, that's odd.

Also, haven't Microsoft said recently that they are ok with all of this ratification etc?

And lastly, do you still hold that those standards bodies are "backroom gangs"?
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LOL, they published it in PDF, a real standard.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 05/03/06
Since you asked  Yagotta B. Kidding | 05/03/06
Sounds like a good excuse.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 05/03/06
Are you working with DRAMs? nt  michael_t | 05/03/06
Aren't we all?  Yagotta B. Kidding | 05/03/06
yes: Jedec (nt)  michael_t | 05/03/06
*sigh*  zkiwi | 05/03/06
C&C  Yagotta B. Kidding | 05/03/06
You guys quit pickin' on Axey!  OButterball | 05/03/06
Man there is a picture I Didn't need  OldMarine | 05/04/06
Anyway you cut it, they don't use ODF.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 05/03/06
Vas you dere, Sharley?  Yagotta B. Kidding | 05/03/06
Then why on earth  zkiwi | 05/03/06
ODF like .doc, isn't the right standard here, it is for editible documents.  DonnieBoy | 05/04/06
Yeah Donnie  Hrothgar - PCLinuxOS User | 05/04/06
PDF is for non-editable documents to maintain exact printing.  DonnieBoy | 05/03/06
Congrats Donnieboy!  George Mitchell | 05/04/06
No Ax, put your money where your mouth is....  tic swayback | 05/04/06
"Microsoft said it will support interoperability with OpenDocument"  Tony Agudo | 05/03/06
Neither.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 05/03/06
The statement came directly from the article...  Tony Agudo | 05/03/06
They will support ODF through 3rd party filters, so they say.  DonnieBoy | 05/03/06
ODF plugin  JDThompson | 05/04/06
Careful JD  OldMarine | 05/04/06
Thanks, JD!  Tony Agudo | 05/04/06
Still waiting  Yagotta B. Kidding | 05/03/06
Just a WAG but I would say...  Confused by religion | 05/03/06
Could you be a bit more specific?  Yagotta B. Kidding | 05/03/06
Few are going to actually work in odf format  zmud | 05/04/06
If enough use ODF as the format to exchange documents, might as well bypass  DonnieBoy | 05/04/06
Welcome to the Open Standards Formation Procedures  michael_t | 05/03/06
If I remember correctly...  rapson | 05/04/06
Memory check failure  Yagotta B. Kidding | 05/04/06
Thanks for the correction  rapson | 05/04/06
Breaking the lock.....  linux_for_me | 05/03/06
goverment should force M$ to support  toxicfreak | 05/04/06
Its taken care of already ...  George Mitchell | 05/04/06
Apparently the folks in the ISO committees did not read  michael_t | 05/04/06
At least they can read  rcasha_z | 05/05/06

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