15 Apr
2008
15 Apr
'08
10:34 a.m.
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 3:55 PM, jtd jtd@mtnl.net.in wrote:
No. It's not a standard. It is a proposed standard which will have to be cleared by various regular ISO committies and the newly formed ones (read my previous mail), before becoming a standard.
OTOH ODF is already an approved standard.
AFAIK, nobody has standardized what Open Standard means (and who standardizes the standardizer and all such enigmatic thougths), and nobody has a copyright, business patent or trademark on that phrase. So if Microsoft chooses to call OOXML an Open Standard or Divine Banner or whatever, they can, and their pet bloggers and wikipedia stuffers will proclaim it to be the Truth (TM).