Brazil Appeals OOXML Decision

Posted by timothy on Thursday May 29, 2008 @08:12AM from the this-space-reserved-for-obscure-xml dept.

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Brazil is now appealing the ISO's decision to standardize OOXML, following South Africa's lead. Interestingly, part of the reason this took so long was that Microsoft supporters at the meetings kept asking for delays because they 'weren't prepared' to discuss the issues raised. And the ISO as a whole is moving rather slowly, after that delay in releasing the DIS. But at least the ISO is also rewriting the directives in a special working group so this doesn't happen again. Of course, they'd have to be strict about making sure the directives are followed for it to help."

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Re:Approve the M$ format - One Condition by Anonymous Coward · 2008-05-29 08:50 · Score: 0, Troll

"They should approve the M$ format OOXML under one condition and one condition alone. M$ must place GPL all of their source code and file formats."

And just why should they do that? If being open source was a requirement of the ISO process then yes, but it's not.

Get over it already, it's done.