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OpenDocument Now Published ISO Standard

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the a-long-long-road dept.

bobibobi writes "After months of revisions, OpenDocument receives status of a full published standard. The various stages of a standard's "stage code are also online." The OpenDocument standard has been developed by a variety of organizations and is publicly accessible. This means it can be implemented into any system, be it free software/open source or a closed proprietary product, without royalties.

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  1. Re:Hmmm by init100 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Who cares if the office-file-formats, highly efficient and thoroughly documented on MSDN...

    You mean that the APIs for working with (MS) office files are well documented, not the formats themselves.

  2. Re:The problem by UnknowingFool · · Score: 5, Insightful
    The problem with those "standards" is that today this may be enough for all, but maybe tomorrow there will arise tasks for which the standards will not be good enough, or you will need to use many hacks to try to fit to the standards.

    Yes like TCP/IP, ANSI/Unicode, HTML, CSS. You know those obsolete standards that nobody uses anymore. :P

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