marbux's blog
Private deal to approve OOXML? More evidence surfaces
Circumstantial evidence is mounting of one or more private deals having been struck to approve DIS-29500 Office Open XML ("OOXML") as an international standard, a deal that may have played a role in several key national standardization bodies changing their voting position to approve OOXML.
Putting Andy Updegrove to Bed (without his supper)
In late 2007, an article by OASIS attorney Andy Updegrove claimed that W3C Compound Document Formats: [i] are non-editable formats; [ii] are not designed for conversions to other formats; and [iii] are therefore unsuitable as office formats. Updegrove could not have been more wrong.
What IBM VP Bob Sutor does not want you to read -- Updated
UPDATE — I sent an email to Bob Sutor with a link to this article, which led to him posting my comment discussed below and explaining that my post was diverted by the Spam filter on his blog. We had a private email conversation about his new "real names" policy.
