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A competing standard, which didn't have to do dirty tricks to get ISO certified, was a fraction (tenth?) of the size. Also, claims of innocence is extra absurd
by berntb 17y ago
A competing standard, which didn't have to do dirty tricks to get ISO certified, was a fraction (tenth?) of the size.
Also, claims of innocence is extra absurd here:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Microsoft_offers_to_pay_blogger_to_%27correct%27_Wikipedia_article http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Microsoft_offers_to_pay_blogger_...
- sokoloff 17y agoThe file formats for other competing formats (like say, .txt or .csv) are also very simple. They also don't fully interoperate with Word or Excel.
- berntb 17y agoYou have a point, I guess it would be impossible to define a better format for use with the Office package. (Sadly, that wasn't a joke.) I talked about compatibility in another comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=691268 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=691268