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Alex Brown
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Alex Brown writes Where is there an end of it?, a personal blog at adjb.net about programming and writing. Since 2008, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
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Why HN links it
Linked in threads on Microsoft Word and ISO's OOXML standardization. The posts cover whether Microsoft Office implements OOXML, and one commenter notes the author was a key figure in the standardization.
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What Hacker News says?
Last time I checked not even Microsoft Office implemented the version of OOXML they forced through ISO which somewhat undermines your point. http://adjb.net/post/Microsoft-Fails-the-Standards-Test.aspx Note that post isn't written by some random GNU fanatic, but one of the key figures involved in the standardization. "The simple validators developed by me (Office-o-tron) and by Jesper Lund Stocholm (ISO/IEC 29500 Va…
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on “Why Microsoft Word must die”Submitted Microsoft Fails the Office XML Standards Test as a story · 20 points
HN discussionpermanent link: http://adjb.net/index.php?entry=entry080409-221633
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on “ISO takes full control of OOXML”Submitted ISO takes full control of OOXML as a story · 1 points
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