[Discuss] ODF is now an ISO standard

[Alan W. Irwin]

Details at Andy Updegrove's blog:
http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20060503080915835

European governments and businesses pay strong attention to ISO standards.
Also there was fear that MS would somehow try to stop this adoption of ODF
as an ISO standard through their recent joining of the committee overseeing
the adoption process.

Thus, this is encouraging news indeed for OpenOffice, Koffice and other
office applications that use the ODF standard and discouraging news for
MS with their many (!) different non-standard MS Office formats.

Alan
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Alan W. Irwin

Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).

Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation
for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software
package (plplot.org); the Yorick front-end to PLplot (yplot.sf.net); the
Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project
(lbproject.sf.net).
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