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In yesterday's post about Microsoft's lobbying of the Cabinet Office against truly open standards based on RF licensing, I spent...

The importance of Mozilla and its Firefox browser went up a notch last week. For it was then that it became clear that Microsoft has little ...

Long-time readers of this blog will recall the bitter fight over the submission of Microsoft's OOXML formats to the ISO. To the dismay o...

It has been a sad spectacle to see the British Library – without doubt once the greatest library in the world, and hence a powerful force fo...

Next week, I'm taking part in a debate with a Microsoft representative about the passage of the OOXML file format through the ISO proces...

It's hard to believe that there was such sound and fury when OOXML was being pushed through the ISO process. At the time, it seemed like...

Remember Open Office XML – a name chosen to be as confusingly close to OpenOffice XML as possible – better known as OOXML? Remember how just...

One of the things that disappoints me is the lack of understanding of what's at stake with open source among some of the other open comm...

One of the advantages of free software that I've often touted is the ability to produce localised versions in situations where Microsoft...

Nicht slecht : Der IT-Rat der Bundesregierung hat beschlossen, das offene Dokumentenformat ODF (ISO 26300) in der Bundesverwaltung schrittwe...

Nothing shows better what is wrong with the ISO, and why we need to replace it with a new global standards organisation, than the following ...

One of the mysteries concerning Microsoft's attempts to deal with the threat ODF poses to its stranglehold on the office suite sector is...

A little while back I noted a provocative call from IBM for standards bodies to do better – a clear reference to the ISO's handling of O...

I've written before about the parlous state into which the once-irreproachable ISO has fallen, particularly with its flagrant disregard ...

Yesterday I was urging people to submit comments on the EU's interoperability framework. I mentioned that one of the important issues in...

I've noted before that writing to MPs/MEPs seems to be remarkably effective in terms of generating a response. The naïve among us might ...

So ISO has decided it wants to be irrelevant : The two ISO and IEC technical boards have given the go-ahead to publish ISO/IEC DIS 29500, In...

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The OOXML farce continues : Four national standards body members of ISO and IEC – Brazil, India, South Africa and Venezuela – have submitted...

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