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kasabali a day ago

The problem with this is Microsoft foresaw it and pushed (bribed?) OOXML through ISO and now there's no standing on "forcing" an open standard without OOXML being one.

vrighter 21 hours ago | parent [-]

how about requiring the format to actually be specified? Isn't ooxml filled with tons of chunks saying "and then this will behave like word 95 did" and not specify what tat is

illiac786 12 hours ago | parent [-]

What? And this got approved by ISO?!?

vrighter 10 hours ago | parent [-]

It sure did! and because those products aren't sold anymore, it's impossible to legally implement the standardc as even with the "full" spec, you need to reverse engineer stuff from unavailable software