The British Standards Institution has been taken to court by a group of Unix users in an attempt to get the standards body to recant its approval of Microsoft's Office Open XML document format.
Industry observers have expressed concern about Microsoft's decision to submit the file formats for its new Office 12 applications to ECMA International, a European standards body.
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Linux project lead Linus Torvalds has said it is not easy to become a major contributor to the Linux kernel.
Microsoft will add native support to Office 2007 for the OpenDocument Format (ODF) instead of OOXML because of compatibility issues but Microsoft refuses to admit that ODF has won the document format war.
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Open-source software is starting to expand into the big-ticket infrastructure-software market dominated by Microsoft and others.
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