Initially i thought it was an April fools joke, but it is true indeed.
M$ has won the Open Office Standard ISO Tournament.
I mean, i know Retro is fashionable sometimes, but 1990’s style Microsoft’s patented OOXML as an open office standard?? - An absurdly 6.000 pages specification with many known issues.
Such a fundamental evolutionary tech like an Open Office Standard is “given” to Microsoft as sole developer and entitled owner?? - They can sue any other company for using it ffs!
With unspecified fundamental binary code (blob) that nobody can interpret but themselves and making use of deprecated technologies such as VML??
View the details.
WTF?
The voting itself is undoubtfully a staged play, with multiple countries having last-minute vote changes, from disapproval or abstention to approval in the eleventh hour, making the final results look like a “Should US invade the Middle East?” poll - only a few wise countries voted no…
Even Norway changed their minds!!
So much for compliance…
“I am very disappointed in ISO, OSI, and ECMA. I held them with high regard, until they started approving standards and licenses of a company that has been holding back the PC industry all to make a little more money.” - says a commenter at Intellectual Property Watch
I totally agree - shameful indeed.