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Story: ISO calls for end to OOXML 'personal attacks'
If there was ever a place for non-violent protest...
All ethical means possible should be used to prevent anything Microsoft produces becoming an international standard. Their shoddy products, consumption centered design, and taking good ideas and making them worse are just fine for deluding you and me directly, causing us to waste time and money in confusion and mediocrity, but an international body determining what is best for the world needs to be educated. Microsoft does not create stability. They do not create standards. They create schlock.
The highest scrutiny and care must be used in forming "International Standards". It is an awesome responsibility and concerned folks everywhere must stand up and hold the ISO to do its job.
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Story: ISO calls for end to OOXML 'personal attacks'
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If they weren't thugs, we wouldn't hate them J.A. Watson -
Well said LadyRoot David Long -
Lady Root, I sincerely hope you're just troll... Chris Rankin -
Real Standards Tezzer -
ISO lost all credibility samie91 -
You missed the real story with the meeting in Oslo Marbux -
If there's such strong disagreement, OOXML shouldn... SPM -
ISO process has been gamed, why back off? rkhalloran -
If there was ever a place for non-violent protest.... ijames -
Personal attacks? ego.sum.stig -
Personal Attacks? Moley -
Oh, hating Microsoft is so cool... LadyRoot -
O(O)XML and .docx Moley -
Microsoft has right to dictate standards... LadyRoot -
Apple and Google are "tech darlings" for... ijames -
OOXML personal attacks. ator1940 -
Eyes have been opened David Long -
CoolAid required dogStar -
Mostly right, with critical excepti... J.A. Watson -
But OOXML is a non-standard SPM -
Microsoft should not dictate standa... rkhalloran -
Talk about missing the point so com... ego.sum.stig -
ODF is not a standard LadyRoot -
The ISO would disagree dogStar -
ODF is ISO/IEC 26300:2006 Chris Rankin -
de-facto vs. de-jure rkhalloran -
(Full ISO link provided here.) Chris Rankin -
Yes! Microsoft must be stoppe... ijames








