Archive for April, 2008
Monday, April 21st, 2008
Steve Pepper, the former chairman of the Norwegian mirror committee SC34, tells his version of the story which led to the YES vote on OOXML:
[...] at this point, the “rules” were changed. The VP asserted that “Ecma has clearly made steps in the right direction.” The most important thing now ...
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
I've been looking for a Mac OS X equivalent of KDE's kcharselect tonight and before I noticed that there is something similar already built in (the character map which is available from the internationalization menu), I stumbled upon UnicodeChecker:
And wow, this is a very fine application which goes even beyond ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
As it was already rumored, OOXML got its official approval by ISO today. (Does ISO stand for "I Sell Out" nowadays?)
Benjamin Henrion, initiator of the OOXML campaign, notes:
Committee stuffing is a standard practice for Microsoft. Microsoft raped ISO with their office file formats, leaving the organization in limbo. The whole ...
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