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ODF Editor Says ODF Loses If OOXML Does
An anonymous reader writes "The editor of the Open Document Format standard has written a letter (PDF) that strongly supports recognizing Microsoft's OOXML file format as a standard, arguing that if it fails, ODF will suffer. 'As the editor of OpenDocument, I want to promote OpenDocument, extol its features, urge the widest use of it as possible, none of which is accomplished by the anti-OpenXML position in ISO,' Patrick Durusau wrote. 'The bottom line is that OpenDocument, among others, will lose if OpenXML loses... Passage of OpenXML in ISO is going to benefit OpenDocument as much as anyone else.'"
pdf of letter
"Thanks for all the money you paid to us. We've used it to buy off ISO among other things" -Microsoft
Really? Can you point to the two continents called America? Because I've heard of North America, I'd have heard of South America. Hell, I've even heard of the Americas. But I aint never heard of a continent called America. Let alone a second one with the exact same name!