We've hit a second time a major player in the standards world has said the path ahead for OOXML (and ODF) is cooperation, perhaps an eventual merging of the two.
In this case, we're talking about Andy Updegrove, a Boston lawyer who works with industry standards bodies (and a well known critic of OOXML, an author of the Linux Foundation's Legal Voices blog). He thinks that governments will adopt ODF and that will gently put pressure on ODF and OOXML to merge. Makes sense, if indeed governments are interested in ODF. Earlier in the month Patrick Durasau wrote an open letter calling for both formats to be developed in parallel.
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