Microsoft Open XML petition criticised

In recent times, Microsoft was praised for its new openness towards open source and other software standards other than its own, however its recent efforts to fast track acceptance of its Office open XML is not going down well in some quarters. The paragraph below summarise the felling of the Open source community to MS’s drive.An online petition posted by Microsoft to fast-track the standardization of its Office Open XML document format masks the company’s concern over the procedure, according to a leading open-source advocate.
The petition is an attempt to make it appear that Open XML has “pseudo-grassroots” support, argues Mark Taylor, the founder of the Open Source Consortium.
“In the open-source world, there’s clearly a massive grassroots thing,” Taylor told ZDNet UK on Thursday. “One of the lessons Microsoft has been trying to learn from open source is that–but they have to fake it. If there was any grassroots support behind it, the time to have done (the petition) would have been ages ago.”

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