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Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

> On Tue, 31 Dec 2024 20:40:05 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>
>> The original .doc format was closed too.  You could get a look at the
>> specs, but you had to sign a non-disclosure agreement first. I once
>> heard from someone who signed the NDA and looked at the specs.  He said
>> you really didn't want to know what was in there.
>> It was a real dog's breakfast - but I suppose the people who
>> revese-engineered it knew that already.
>
> You just to look at what was public in the ISO 29500 so-called spec to see 
> that it was an accumulation of many years of dogs’ breakfasts, piled one 
> on top of the other.

+1

Remember when Microsoft puts its stooges on the ISO standards bodies of various
countries in order to ram through their 6000-page standard?

-- 
The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.
		-- Lewis Carroll