African civil society warns Microsoft
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| African Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) may be spoiling for war with the
| global software giant, Microsoft Corporation, over its bid to have its DIS
| 29500 'Office Open Extensible Markup Language (OOXML)' endorsed by the
| International Standard Organisation (ISO).
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http://www.africanews.com/site/list_messages/10937
MS threatens legitimacy of ISO
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| Microsoft whines they are following the rules. Well, it's also within the
| rules to fire a competent and cooperative single mother of 4 children and
| replace her with your drinking buddy. Some rules.
| ISO will commit suicide if OOXML becomes a standard as it is now. But maybe
| that's what Microsoft wants.
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http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2007-08-27-024-26-OS-LL-PB-0003
5 simple questions on OOXML
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| Here are some 5 simple questions you should get an answer from your
| Standardisation Body, from ECMA, or from Microsoft...
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http://www.noooxml.org/5questions
OOXML is a hoax. Some people already announce the irrelevance of the ISO (see
bottom, with highlight).
Recent:
Background information on ODF, OOXML and why It matters
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| In response they have apparently been sending PR teams around to national
| Standards boards all over the world(Ghana for a fact) to lobby for votes for
| OOXML under the guise of talking about ‘Open XML Standards’.
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| [...]
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| If OOXML is inappropriately tied to Microsoft tools and software, it doesn’t
| fit the definition of an open standard and making it one is inviting trouble
| we don’t want and probably can’t recover from quickly.
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http://ghanageek.wordpress.com/2007/08/17/background-information-on-odf-ooxml-and-why-it-matters/
Related:
Ghana pursuing open source policy
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| The minister also said that "Ghana's legislators, of which I am a member,
| use Linux to support the computing facilities at Parliament House".
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1472
OOXML: Is it safe?
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| The tragedy of this is that for so many NB's, with talented technical
| committees, the discussion of OOXML has failed to be a technical evaluation,
| but has quickly become a political game, where committees are stuffed,
| governments are pressured, billionaires call in favors, competitors blocked
| from participation, voting rules ignored or modified at whim, etc. All we can
| do is stand by and watch as Microsoft takes over JTC1. The cost to Microsoft
| will be great, but so much greater is the cost to JTC1. What will it mean for
| JTC1's future to be known as a body that does not follow its own rules, does
| not evaluate proposals on technical merits, but has procedures so weak and
| poorly written that it allows itself to be taken over by a single company?
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| Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/08/is-it-safe.html
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