France: "Non, avec des commentaires!"
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| Apparently, the French discussion on OOXML broke into something resembling a
| bar-fight.
|
| [...]
|
| Matters soon got out of hand: the shouting seems to have climaxed with the
| Microsoft representative insulting the management of AFNOR, members of the
| Defense Ministry, the Justice Ministry, the Interior Ministry, and two
| members from the Industrial Ministry exclaiming that they were servants of a
| banana republic!
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http://fussnotes.typepad.com/plexnex/2007/08/france-no-with-.html
Well done, France. Their parliament is moving to GNU/Linux (they have already
received Linux laptops).
Microsoft accused of ballot stuffing in standards vote
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| The Russian Government has taken a step towards endorsing ODF through an
| e-government program that would mandate use of software that conforms
| to "widely used standards" in all government contracts.
|
| According to the Russian Ministry of Information Technologies and
| Communications "within the project to form an e-government concept in the
| Russian Federation, support of ISO/IEC 26300: 2006 is planned."
|
| The move has been welcomed by the Open Document Format Alliance, which said
| in a statement that Russia is "sending a message worldwide that software
| should be affordable, innovative and accessible, now and for the foreseeable
| future."
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http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2007/08/29/microsoft_ooxml_sweeden_rigged_vote/
More Office Open XML Trouble for Microsoft
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| Meantime, the managing director for the ODF Alliance notes that Microsoft’s
| work may backfire. As he told Computerworld:
|
| Some of the comments that have been received from the countries...
| shine a light on OOXML defects. Governments will think long and hard
| after viewing some of these comments before using the format.
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http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/osb/?p=218
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