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ODF vs. OOXML on the Eve of the BRM

Posted by Sander_Marechal on · 1 comment
Standards Blog; By Any Updegrove
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If you're reading this blog entry, you've probably been following the battle between ODF and OOXML. If so, you may be thinking of that conflict as a classic standards war, but in fact, it goes much deeper than that label would suggest. What is happening between the proponents of ODF and OOXML is only a skirmish in a bigger battle that involves a fundamental reordering of forces, ideologies, stakeholders, and economics at the interface of society and information technology.

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Most of the recent articles on LXer have been about the "next step" in the FOSS/Linux move to the mainstream.

If ODF becomes the standard that sudden we are seeing will become real sudden.

Y'all get on this article now, hear?

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