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ISO/IEC 29500 is not a proprietary format.

• notagoodidea 4y ago
  It is for the .doc format and other Office firmat until Microsoft Office 2008 included and do not provide a standard for the the post-2008 Office format (ending with the `x` in the file extension), AFAIK.
  • formerly_proven 4y ago
    You're mistaken, ISO 29500 and ECMA-376 are both (they're actually three somewhat different standards all in all, as I understand it) for "Office Open XML" (totally not intended to be confused with Open Office and Open Office XML), which is docx/pptx/xlsx etc. ODT (OpenDocument) is also XML-in-a-ZIP and is also an ISO standard (older than Microsoft's, in fact). I don't think the older variants (.doc, .xls etc.) are standardized, but iirc Microsoft did eventually release some documentation on them.
• kuon 4y ago
  ISO is not free which is very cumbersome and why many ISO standards are not implemented correctly (like 8601). I consider ISO proprietary and bad for that reason.
  • thayne 4y ago
    And what's more, the docx ISO "standardization" was very controversial.