Since I gave a presentation on this topic at the OFE Conference in Geneva at the end of February I have meant to post something about it here. As some of us stated before, if anything, the OOXML debacle has achieved one thing: raising awareness for the need for higher quality standards and standards development processes.
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can.axis
18 years 10 weeks 5 days 10 hours ago
Free Formats vs. Open Formats
The problem is the same with the W3C standards, but nobody talks about it...
Microsoft patents:
W3C WS-* activities:
Chair of theHTML Working Group: Chris Wilson, Microsoft.
Microsoft slammed over XML patent:
WS-* == Windows Services Dash Star?
"...This isn’t anymore about closed vs. open formats, and you don’t need me to rub it in your face. It’s time to leave those non-free formats behind and look forward for a world of interoperability, a world of doors free to trespass in whatever way you want, and where no one will be able to take that freedom away from anyone else.
tl;dr version: Avoid open standards. They may look like free standards, but they aren’t."