Long stupid debate on OOXML and the year 1900 (was: Ecma responses to ISO)

Nigel Stewart nigels at nigels.com
Sun Mar 11 14:40:47 EDT 2007


>  It actually sounds like OOXML isn't as bad as the C standard,
> because at least OOXML gives you the *option* of not incorporating the
> bug.

	The year is 2007, as nice as it would be to update
	the C standard to fix all these bugs, we're talking
	about OOXML.  If the point of having a standard
	is for interchange of documents, let's leave all
	the MS Word etc hacks behind as legacy, rather than
	entrenching them as "one standard out of many".

Nigel


More information about the gnhlug-discuss mailing list