IBM has had enough of the silliness that goes on at some of the standards bodies it belongs to. So Big Blue now has a new policy: No shenanigans. Setting standards for hardware, software, communications protocols, document formats — is a job that’s way too important to be done in the dark, says IBM. IBM denied that its new policy was a response to the approval of Microsoft’s Office Open XML as an international standard by the ISO, even though the competing standard, OpenDocument Format, is found in the IBM-sponsored OpenOffice suite.
