[odf-discuss] Alex Brown on OOo ODF validity

[Ian Lynch]

On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 16:37 -0700, marbux wrote:
> <http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39409700,00.htm>
> 
> Alex Brown, a document-format expert who is convenor of the process to
> standardise Office Open XML (OOXML), posted a blog this week 

This entire debate shows why there should be only one ISO standard. Even
if Alex Brown is entirely genuine in his views, there is always the
nagging thought that perhaps he has some commercial vested interest in
promoting OOXML.

Alex Brown recently gained a place on the advisory committee of the
British Library, an organisation that just happens to provide Adam
Farquhar as chair of ECMA TC 45 for OOXML. The British Library and
Microsoft are close collaborators.  So independent operator with no
particular vested interest? Hmmm.

It's wholly inappropriate for a person in Brown's position to start
making emotive and what seem to be erroneous public comments.

Ian
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