Computer Experts Protest Global Pact

April 9, 2008

(AP) -- Roughly 60 data experts staged a rare and noisy street demonstration in downtown Oslo on Wednesday to protest Norway joining adoption of Microsoft Corp.'s document format as the international standard.

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