Quoting Michael Skiba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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Am Freitag, 22. Juni 2007 11:30 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
If Microsoft is willing to commit to a standard, and therefore not
change the format in which documents are saved without first getting
ISO approval for the changes, great! Microsoft may get to claim to be
the originator of the standard, but I expect it will not be able to
change that standard quite so easily if it is ISO recognized.
Remember that one of Microsoft's biggest advantages is that it
develops its own standard and then continually changes it, thus making
it difficult for people not using Microsoft products to share files,
view media on the net, etc. With an established standard that
Microsoft agrees to adhere to, everybody is, in the long run, better
off.
But only if this standart is open, and accessable for all - and that's one of
my basic question, what does it mean if it becomes a standard?
A standard that is only useable with microsoft products(and if you
try reverse
engeenierign you get sued for it) or is it a specification, which
is "transparent" and can be implemented in any software I want(i.e. OOo).
In the first case I clearly gotta say no! In the second case, why not?
I guess I am implicitly assuming that if it is an ISO certified
standard, it must be open. It would be rather strange to say that the
ISO weight measure is the gram, but only I can tell you whether or not
something weighs a gram. A propriety, secret ISO standard is a bit
silly. I'd suggest that someone who knows more about the ISO could
comment on that.
John.
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