[Discuss] ODF is now an ISO standard

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2006-05-05 15:09-0700 Deryk Barker wrote:

> Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> ...........
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>>   Of course, it is vapourware at this stage since it is not released to
>> the public yet,
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> That's an unusual definition of 'vapourware'....

Perhaps, but I think it is the correct one.  We should apply the same rules
for everybody.  I have seen time and again announcements of MS products that
will be available sometime in the future categorized (correctly I believe)
as vapourware since until the bits are publicly available you don't know
what you've got. I am applying this same criterion to this Open Document
Foundation's announcement since the plug-in is not publicly accessible
yet.

Alan
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