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Story: UK may make last-minute U-turn on OOXML

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Posted by: PeterJudge (Tuesday 1 April 2008, 11:04 AM)

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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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