OOXML “already deprecated”, restricted access, patents, pic
With ISO’s Ballot Resolution Meeting starting next Monday (Feb 25th), there’ve been a few interesting publications today:
- DIS-29500: Deprecated before use? by FSFE’s OOXML working group, explaining why Microsoft’s format was undeserving from the start, how it now fails even its own criteria for usefulness.
- A Pre-BRM Miscellany, "Photo ID requirements, badged access to the meeting room, prohibitions against cameras and recording devices, no observers, no press."
- Developers warned over OOXML patent risk – ZDNet Australia article about concern over the meaning of terms in Microsoft’s Open Specification Promise
- A photo of a printed copy of the OOXML specification 🙂
Update: I originally misattributed the "Deprecated before use" article – it was actually a group effort, so thanks to Shane Coughlan, Georg Greve, and Marko Milenovic among others.</p/
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Ciarán O’Riordan,
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