The Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States is having a public review period for adding Microsoft’s OOXML document format (take proprietary Office formats, convert to XML, shake, please don’t print the 6000+ pages). Andy Updegrove has published his comments to the state over in his ConsortiumInfo blog in a piece called “My Comments to the Mass. ITD on OOXML – Please Send Yours”.
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There’s some commentary from the BBC about the pending ‘ISO standards’ question here http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6291124.stm .
I’d better offer it as-seen.
In principle the BBC are there to spend public money providing a public service, so they should logically represent both the ‘boat-load of money’ and the ‘collaborating innovator’ sides of the argument.
Chris,
From what I can gather (I’m here in the UK), the BBC (and other government-affiliated bodies0 are a lost cause. Sorry about posting a link to a personal blog, but your might want to see *this*: http://boycottnovell.com/2007/07/12/bbc-and-novell/
They now say they might use .NET (*cough* patents *cough* lockin *cough* extend and extinguish) in their Web site.