Re:Lack of leadership in open source results in source-avail...
by sheetjs on Saturday June 01, 2019 @05:09PM
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".docx is a bad example, because it was standardized"
This is not 100% correct. A large part of the format is standardized in ECMA-376 and ISO/IEC 29500, but many details are implementation-dependent. Many of those details are covered under other specifications like [MS-DOCX] that are covered by a covenant not to sue, but other details are not covered and are therefore in murky legal territory.
This is not 100% correct. A large part of the format is standardized in ECMA-376 and ISO/IEC 29500, but many details are implementation-dependent. Many of those details are covered under other specifications like [MS-DOCX] that are covered by a covenant not to sue, but other details are not covered and are therefore in murky legal territory.
[MS-DOCX] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/office_standards/...