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2008-05-06

Ubuntu’s Shuttleworth blames ISO for OOXML’s win

Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth said the approval of Microsoft’s Office Open XML is a “sad” day for ISO and the computing public.

“I think it de-values the confidence people have in the standards setting process,” Shuttleworth said in an interview just hours after the news was leaked. The International Standards Organization (ISO) did not carry out its responsibility, he claimed.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2222&tag=nl.e019

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