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KDE's ISO Delegate Votes Yes to Office Open XML

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on · 6 comments
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This week saw the International Standards Organisation vote on adopting Office Open XML as a standard for office documents. KDE gained a representative late last year through our legal body KDE e.V. realising that the only way to ensure a fair process was to be part of it. Today our delegate voted yes to adopting the format as an international standard. "We have studied the standard hard and many changes have been made to it," said KDE's Supreme Leader Aaron Seigo "and following a $10,000 donation from an anonymous North American source we realised the market should decide the best formats to use, not technical bureaucrats".

[April Fools! - Scott]

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Comments (6)

nikkels ·
You got to love this.................
tracyanne ·
I'm tired, I just got home from work, I saw this..........you had me going there for a second or two.
npan ·
It's all fun and games till an open source project advocates Office Open XML ;)
Scott_Ruecker Story submitter ·
Gotcha!!

:-)
ajt ·
Is it funny because it's an April Fool or is it because it's a cynical but fictitious comment about how money can buy anyone?

Either way it is sad that MS have reduced the once respected ISO to an international laughing stock...
Scott_Ruecker Story submitter ·
Unfortunately ajt, it's funny for both reasons. KDE would never vote yes to OOXML and the ISO is pretty much a joke now..

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