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Something rotten in the State of Sweden
- 2007-08-31
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This entire OOXML campaign stinks!
This is being forced on everyone simply because one corporation has manufactured a back-door strategy, to maintain a software monopoly.
Around the world, we decided that we needed a new universal standard to apply to the digital equivalent of pen and paper.
Around the world, we decided on such a standard.
Microsoft chose not to take part in those deliberations.
Now, Microsoft want to tell us, “Stuv ya stanadz suggerz, wod we zeyz goez, bub.”
The standards we selected, means nothing to Microsoft, apparently.
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