Norbert Bollow's Comments on Standards

I aim to make this a leading blog on the need for standards which are truly open standards and technically of excellent quality.

Right now, I have just five blog postings:

• 2009-08-12: The ISO/IEC working-group on OOXML (JTC1 SC34 WG4) wants to unfix the leap-year bug and related date-and-time problems.
• 2009-08-18: ODF is unaffected by patents on the kinds of extension mechanisms which are used in OOXML.
• 2009-11-02: Do you really want these time and date interoperability problems with OOXML spreadsheets?
• 2009-11-11: No substantial agreement yet on OOXML DCORs
• 2009-11-11: What are the decision criteria for DCORs in the JTC1 Directives?

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