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Star/OpenOffice XML Format To Become ISO Standard?

Posted by Hemos on from the good-news-if-true dept.

Emil Brink writes "According to this entry in XML spec co-author Tim Bray's excellent blog, the European Commission has formally asked Sun to make the XML file format used in OpenOffice.org into a true ISO standard. Hopefully this will cut down on vendor lock-in and lure people from using Microsoft Office. "

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  1. Re:Broken Linky by Orgazmus · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Welcome to slashdot, the land of broken(dead?) links :)

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  2. Re:-1 Wrong by Zorilla · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Do you really know that little about OO formats or is this a joke?

    You're getting warmer. Sweet baby Jesus operating a forklift! When you read comic strips, do you occupy yourself by looking for inconsistencies?

    Laugh or look elsewhere, just don't take a joke as a piece of technical information and get pissed at me for presenting it. This goes for the moderators, too.

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