Open XML proposal gets thumbs-down
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| “After considerable discussion and input from key New Zealand stakeholders, a
| large number of whom opposed publication of the document as an international
| Standard in its current form, the Standards Council have concluded that the
| best vote for New Zealand is ‘no’,” says Grant Thomas, chief operating
| officer at Standards New Zealand.
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http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/08A7B165747139B1CC25734700070796
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More yucky stuff:
Pseudorandom Thoughts
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| Wait... this just in. In a survey of most dumb-ass Microsoft-sponsored
| surveys, first place goes to CompTIA's "Microsoft, Creator of Civilization,
| Inventor of Fire & Universal Benefactor of Mankind" and second place goes to
| IDC's "4% Looks More Important in a Bar Chart if the Maximum is set to 5%."
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http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/08/pseudorandom-thoughts.html
Company puppets, partner/overseas puppets, analyst puppets, and lobbying arms.
Related:
Open Source Society warns of Open XML patent threat
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| But Christie says alarm bells are going off in many parts of the world over
| Open XML. He says many aspects of the format remain proprietary and because
| of this the process behind its development has not been robust.
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| He says the Open Document Format standard went through three years of public
| standardisation before being submitted to the International Standards
| Organisation, while Open XML was rushed out at "an unprecedented pace".
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| The areas where interoperability breaks down are where the detail is
| just not there, Christie says, either because of haste or to protect
| proprietary methods. Add the issue of portability across platforms, he says,
| and OOXML fails to deliver two of the three hallmarks of a good standard.
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http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/tech/3CA53767B17F2736CC257338001C62AD
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