Microsoft corruption
Microsoft corruption
Posted May 7, 2025 4:09 UTC (Wed) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)In reply to: Microsoft corruption by raven667
Parent article: Celebrating 20 Years of the OASIS Open Document Format
Yep, it was definitely the best outcome. ODF initially was not great (and honestly, still isn't) but its shortcomings were partially addressed later. And OOXML supplanted the awful OLE-based DOC/XLS/... formats. It's as if competition between a small number of standards is good!
Although after implementing the only open-source KMIP client, I really wish somebody would nuke OASIS from the orbit, just to be sure they don't make any new standards.