A dangerous step backwards: "Australia Mandates Microsoft's Office Open XML"

[Glen Newton]

http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/01/19/0059209/Australia-Mandates-Microsofts-Office-Open-XML

Particularly bad as other governments will use it as justification for
them following suit.....

-Glen Newton


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[Glen Newton]

Interesting comment on /.:
"The catch here is that they mandated the Ecma version of the
standard, not the ISO version. The Ecma version is pretty much what
Office 2007+ supports. ISO used that as a base, but the committee did
change quite a few things there, and the final version of ISO standard
still has all those changes - and it's that which does not have any
supporting implementation yet." -
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1956196&cid=34924840

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 7:01 AM, Glen Newton <[hidden email]> wrote:

> http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/01/19/0059209/Australia-Mandates-Microsofts-Office-Open-XML
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> Particularly bad as other governments will use it as justification for
> them following suit.....
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> -Glen Newton
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