UK Agency Files OOXML Complaint, EU Demurs

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday May 13, 2008 @10:22AM from the we-know-we-know-already dept.

Christopher Blanc writes to let us know that although BECTA, the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency, has filed a complaint with EU regulators about Microsoft's business practices, the European Commission won't be doing anything particular about it. BECTA claimed that the OOXML format discourages competition. BECTA lodged a similar complaint with the UK Office of Fair Trading last October. A Commission press officer said, "We are already looking into the issues raised in that complaint already and we are not treating it as a formal complaint to us."

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So let me get this right by TheRealSlimShady · 2008-05-13 11:01 · Score: 0, Troll

So now making a document format a standard is anticompetitive? I'm confused. Wasn't it anticompetitive when the document format was closed?
1. Re:So let me get this right by prockcore · 2008-05-13 11:24 · Score: 0, Troll
  
  One of the biggest problems with this "standard" is that it specifically allows proprietary add-ons.
  
  So why isn't this one of the biggest problems with ODF? ODF allows binary blobs.. it's right there in the standard.