Quoting Michael Skiba
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If Microsoft is willing to commit to a standard, and therefore not change the format in which documents are saved without first getting ISO approval for the changes, great! Microsoft may get to claim to be the originator of the standard, but I expect it will not be able to change that standard quite so easily if it is ISO recognized. Remember that one of Microsoft's biggest advantages is that it develops its own standard and then continually changes it, thus making it difficult for people not using Microsoft products to share files, view media on the net, etc. With an established standard that Microsoft agrees to adhere to, everybody is, in the long run, better off. But only if this standart is open, and accessable for all - and that's one of my basic question, what does it mean if it becomes a standard? A standard that is only useable with microsoft products(and if you
Am Freitag, 22. Juni 2007 11:30 schrieb john.janmaat@acadiau.ca: try reverse engeenierign you get sued for it) or is it a specification, which is "transparent" and can be implemented in any software I want(i.e. OOo).
In the first case I clearly gotta say no! In the second case, why not?
I guess I am implicitly assuming that if it is an ISO certified standard, it must be open. It would be rather strange to say that the ISO weight measure is the gram, but only I can tell you whether or not something weighs a gram. A propriety, secret ISO standard is a bit silly. I'd suggest that someone who knows more about the ISO could comment on that. John.
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