Thursday, April 03, 2008

Mark Shuttleworth blames ISO for Microsoft's Office Open XML Win

“It’s sad that the ISO was not willing to admit that its process was failing horribly,” he said, noting that Microsoft intensely lobbied many countries that traditionally have not participated in ISO and stacked technical committees with Microsoft employees, solution providers and resellers sympathetic to OOXML. “When you have a process built on trust and when that trust is abused, [ISO] should halt the process.”

More Here: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2222

By Paula Rooney

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