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by tialaramex 30 days ago
LOL. You do know ISO/IEC 29500 exists right?

ISO agreed that despite there being an existing, popular, broadly supported and open XML document standard they should define Microsoft's proprietary alternative OOXML as an international "standard". They even held votes repeatedly until the voters gave the "correct" answer... no worry about "industry donations" there.
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uecker 30 days ago
I remember the story, but it was considered outrageous for a reason.
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tialaramex 30 days ago
I'm sure it would be considered "outrageous" when the same happens outside an SDO too.
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uecker 30 days ago
Well, one could consider Mozilla's management of firefox to be outrageous, but then, Google pays, so what to expect?
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