The only way to limit access to an open standard is to take it over and change the next version so it’s now de facto proprietary. This is how ISO was corrupted when it came to docx. And this will mean nothing unless there’s a ton of new processors out there using the new standard (let’s call it RISC-VI) and it’s so much better that anyone using RISC-V loses out.
Realistically, all this can do is make China rush even harder to produce RISC-V chips and ensure the actual chips that exist are using the open standard.
Basically ODF was already a standard and perfectly sufficient to tweak for anything Word would ever need but Microsoft knew that they keep their monopoly secure, in part, by making other software fight to be compatible with Word documents. They also prefer to be in control of the entire ecosystem rather than implementing a shared standard. They proposed docx and other -x formats as their own open standard and were rejected until they more or less bought off ISO through donations and committee positions.
Microsoft then proceeded to make their own proprietary tweaks anyways, making it still very difficult to support the docx format.
lol this should backfire so hard.
The only way to limit access to an open standard is to take it over and change the next version so it’s now de facto proprietary. This is how ISO was corrupted when it came to docx. And this will mean nothing unless there’s a ton of new processors out there using the new standard (let’s call it RISC-VI) and it’s so much better that anyone using RISC-V loses out.
Realistically, all this can do is make China rush even harder to produce RISC-V chips and ensure the actual chips that exist are using the open standard.
china should preemptively release RISC-VI (named after lenin of course).
Do you have any links to more info on this? Sounds interesting and I want to know more.
This seems like an okay overview: https://brattahlid.wordpress.com/2012/05/08/is-docx-really-an-open-standard/
Basically ODF was already a standard and perfectly sufficient to tweak for anything Word would ever need but Microsoft knew that they keep their monopoly secure, in part, by making other software fight to be compatible with Word documents. They also prefer to be in control of the entire ecosystem rather than implementing a shared standard. They proposed docx and other -x formats as their own open standard and were rejected until they more or less bought off ISO through donations and committee positions.
Microsoft then proceeded to make their own proprietary tweaks anyways, making it still very difficult to support the docx format.