● 10.23.07

●● Another Small Company Joins the Ever-growing ODF Club

Posted in Apple, Formats, Interoperability, Microsoft, Office Suites, Open XML, OpenDocument, Standard at 11:26 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Babya is worth congratulating for its new membership in OpenDocument Format Alliance.

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Babya today announced that it has become an official member of the OpenDocument Format Alliance.

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This is good news and an encouraging sign of the growing acceptance of ODF. Not so long ago it was Apple that began embracing ODF. Also, via Bob Sutor, the following is quoteworthy:

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Bringing the whole ISO process into disrepute is an offence that Microsoft won’t escape from lightly in the end.

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Never forget what happened in the ISO, e.g.:

Evidence of Microsoft Influencing OOXML Votes in Nordic StatesMicrosoft Memo to Partners in Sweden Surfaces: Vote Yes for OOXMLThe OOXML ProblemCorrupt countries were more likely to support the OOXML document formatMicrosoft accused of more OOXML standards fiddlingMicrosoft Tech Ed 2007: OpenXMLMicrosoft’s secretive standards orgs in Former Yugoslavia

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