Microsoft Joins OpenDocument Alliance

Jim writes "Microsoft has joined a committee that has a key role in the ratification of OpenDocument as an international standard, leading to accusations that it intends to sabotage the process. Microsoft has denied this accusation, claiming that the only reason why Microsoft employee Jim Thatcher has joined the group was to get involved in the ISO standardisation of its own file format." From the article: "'There sits Microsoft, waiting, like a spider,' wrote Jones, in a posting on her site. 'I am imagining ODF plodding along, with Microsoft asking questions, fine-combing through the comments, did you mean this or that?, getting bogged down in minutia until, lo and behold, either Microsoft's XML makes it as an ISO standard first, or they arrive neck and neck.'" More information here on a subject we touched on in a recent Slashback. update a few readers have asked for the clarification that MSFT has not joined ODF, but rather the "INCITS/V1 Technical Committee"

Comments

Re:Suspicious

[tmasssey]

Said by liliafan in response to a child molester applying to work at a daycare:

Although I am instantly suspicious of anything and everything a child molester does, in this instance I will refrain from making a judgement one way or the other until I see how it progresses. However, that being said, I don't think it would do a lot of harm to their current image to be seem to be involved in a project like this, especially considering the problems they have had in prison recently.

So at what point *do* you become concerned? How many times does a company have to screw the public before you *don't* give them the benefit of the doubt?

Re:Imperial March

[paxgaea]

"Because you're a hopeless nerd who has trouble distinguishing fantasy from reality, and is prone to exaggeration and paranoia?"

The question becomes then, what are YOU doing on /.?

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