Free Market vs the OOXML
Posted by freesoftnews on Apr 1, 2008 in News • No commentsEver since Open Document Format was standardized by ISO and Microsoft started pushing its own “open†format a significant portion of the Free Software community has been buzzing about how bloated, not really open and ultimately redundant Microsoft’s format is and moreover how Microsoft is using various “dirty tricks†to get its format approved as an open standard. I have to say I wasn’t among the many vocal on this issue and that the whole process of standardization, like much of other legal mumbo jumbo is both beyond my interest and skill.