____/ The Ghost In The Machine on Thursday 30 August 2007 00:56 : \____
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote
> on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 00:07:25 +0100
> <7779395.26UUPUznIg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Microsoft corruption in Uruguay:
>>
>>
http://picandocodigo.linuxuruguay.org/index.php/2007/08/29/uruguay-vota-si-al-ooxml/
>>
>> Petition for National Archives (they don't realise that National Archives is
>> itself **RUN** by a Microsoft employee).
>>
>> http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/ODFinNA/
>>
>> Evidence of Microsoft Influencing OOXML Votes in Nordic States
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | "This is how a standard is bought," Bosson wrote later. "I left the
>> | meeting in protest - pissed off."
>> `----
>>
>>
http://www.betanews.com/article/Evidence_of_Microsoft_Influencing_OOXML_Votes_in_Nordic_States/1188335569
>>
>> More here:
>>
>> http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=147&a=686119
>>
>> Microsoft Memo to Partners in Sweden Surfaces: Vote Yes for OOXML - Updated
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | He acknowledges that the rules might need to be changed.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070829070630660
>>
>> The OOXML Problem
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Another thing, by introducing a "new fancy" document format, MS can hold a
>> | tighter grip round existing customers and get more on the false pretence
>> | that they've "opened up".
>> `----
>>
>> http://phun-ky.net/2007/08/the-ooxml-problem
>>
>> Linux Foundation Releases Statement Calling for National Bodies to Vote "No"
>> on OOXML
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Perhaps enough National Bodies will heed the call of the Linux Foundation
>> | to draw a line in the sand, here and now, and even at this eleventh hour,
>> | and stop the juggernaut of abuse before it drives the system totally over
>> | the cliff.
>> `----
>>
>>
http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20070829095223942
>>
>> Rejecting OOXML
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | All the CIOs say they want is XML documents; unfortunately they aren't as
>> | aware as Georg Greve, above, that Microsoft's implementation of XML is
>> | exceedingly half-hearted.
>> `----
>>
>> http://fussnotes.typepad.com/plexnex/2007/08/rejecting-ooxml.html
>
>
> Grrr. I wish everyone would get it into their heads that
> XML is a *framing* protocol, and can describe just about
> anything from music to text. Apart from XML not being
> that well suited to binary picture data, it's a very
> flexible format.
>
> Maybe too flexible.
XML can contain references (textual) to peripheral files contained within the
same compressed wrapper. Microsoft Office 2007 does not implement OOXML. It
implements an augmented derivative, much of it Windows-specific. Therein lie
the big questions.
This is a hoax wrapped in a blanket of corruption that turns a hoax into
reality.
--
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