Story: UK may make last-minute U-turn on OOXML
In fact it's almost an opposite case
They're both failures of the standards process, but OSI used masses of public money to try and build something vendor-independent; OOXML is a massive effort by a vendor to get its specification blessed.
OSI withered because no one used it. OOXML will allow governments to continue pumping money into the use of proprietary formats, while meeting the letter of their "open" policies.
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