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Ecma, the same very cooperative standards body that helped Microsoft submit OOXML to ISO/IEC in record time for global adoption, has just announced that it has chartered a new Technical Committee - this time to produce a standard that would be completely compliant with Microsoft's XML Paper Specification (that's Microsoft's answer to Adobe's PDF).
We can assume that Microsoft and Ecma will present this standard to ISO/IEC as soon as it is completed as well, as it is explicitly intended to complement the OOXML standard. This new submission provides the clearest evidence why ISO/IEC should reject OOXML, rather than cooperate in perpetuating an ever-expanding document environment designed around a single vendor's products, stifling competition and innovation among multiple products. If adopting such vendor-exclusive specifications as global standards becomes the norm rather than the exception, we might as well ring down the curtain on the concept of "open standards."
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