[dot] KDE's ISO Delegate Votes Yes to Office Open XML

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From: Jonathan Riddell <>
Dept: sorry-rms
Date: Monday 31/Mar/2008, @14:49

KDE's ISO Delegate Votes Yes to Office Open XML
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   This week saw the International Standards Organisation vote on
adopting Office Open XML as a standard for office documents.  KDE gained
a representative late last year through our legal body KDE e.V.
realising that the only way to ensure a fair process was to be part of
it.  Today our delegate voted yes to adopting the format as an
international standard.  "We have studied the standard hard and many
changes have been made to it," said KDE's Supreme Leader
[http://www.siriusit.co.uk/myblog/interview-aaron-seigo-kde-project-lead.html]
Aaron Seigo "and following a $10,000 donation from an anonymous North
American source we realised the market should decide the best formats to
use, not technical beurocrats."

     The KOffice developers confirmed their support with Cyrille Burger
saying, "The level of detail in this standard is very impressive,
previous standards we had to deal with were less than half as expansive
in their documentation.  Working with a standard that makes such good
use of previously established standards was also a main reason for the
quick implementation in KOffice"

     KDE founder Stephan Coolio was unavailable for comment because he
was changing nappies.