__/ [ B Gruff ] on Wednesday 07 February 2007 16:47 \__
> What do the following have in common?
>
> Australia
> Canada
> Czech Republic
> Denmark
> Finland
> France
> Germany
> Hungary
> India
> Japan
> Kenya
> Malaysia
> Netherlands
> New Zealand
> Norway
> Romania
> Singapore
> Sweden
> UK
>
> Well, maybe they all hate and/or are jealous of the USA.
>
> Alternatively:-
>
> "Well the results are in, and an unprecedented nineteen countries have
> responded during the contradictions phase - most or all lodging formal
> contradictions with Joint Technical Committee 1 (JTC), the ISO/IEC body
> that is managing the Fast Track process under which OOXML (now Ecma 476)
> has been submitted. This may not only be the largest number of countries
> that have ever submitted contradictions in the ISO/IEC process, but
> nineteen responses is greater than the total number of national bodies that
> often bother to vote on a proposed standard at all"
>
>
http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20070206145620473
s/contradiction/corruption
OOXML is on the fast track....
To the wastebasket [1].
Can a wastebasket contain 6000+ pages of rubbish [4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11]?
[1] Microsoft standards bid faces failure
,----[ Quote ]
| Microsoft's bid to get its Open XML formats recognised as an
| international standard faces a delay for at least three months
| and could fail altogether, it emerged today.
|
| The British Standards Institute, which represents the UK with
| the International Standards Organisation, has issued what is
| called a " contradiction" to Microsoft's specification.
`----
http://www.computeractive.co.uk/personal-computer-world/news/2174199/microsoft-standards-bid-faces
[2] Open source lobby fury over Office format fast-track
,----[ Quote ]
| The duo claim the process means Europe is being 'railroaded
| into accepting an 'inadequate' standard.
`----
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/102898/open-source-lobby-fury-over-office-format-fasttrack.html
http://tinyurl.com/37vouh
[3] FFII opposes Fasttrack adoption of Microsoft OOXML format as ISO standard
,----[ Quote ]
| The FFII has several concerns with the proposed standard. OpenXML
| relies on undisclosed patents, and undisclosed or incomplete
| licensing terms that make any independent reimplementation
| impossible or heavily risky. It obliges implementors to
| reverse-engineer the behavior of old closed Microsoft
| applications and formats. It uses non-standard formats for
| languages and dates, and specifies known bugs, such as
| treating 1900 as a leap year.
`----
http://press.ffii.org/Press_releases/FFII_opposes_Fasttrack_adoption_of_Microsoft_OOXML_format_as_ISO_standard
http://tinyurl.com/2qxk7p
[4] The Open XML Lie
,----[ Quote ]
| The basic premise of Rob's article was that the Microsoft Open
| XML Specification was similar to creating a job description
| that would allow for only one qualified respondent. Such a
| job description might read as follows:
|
| * 5 years experience with Java, J2EE and web development, PHP, XSLT
| * Fluency in French and Corsican
| * Experience with the Llama farming industry
| * Mole on left shoulder
| * Sister named Bridgette
`----
http://3monkeyweb.com/3monkeys/2007/01/17/the-open-xml-lie/
[5] The Formats of Excel 2007
http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/01/formats-of-excel-2007.html
[6] Is Open XML a one way specification for most people?
http://sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=1145
[7] Is Office Open XML A One-Way Standard? Ask Microsoft
http://blogs.adobe.com/shebanation/2006/12/open_xml_one-way.html
[8] Signs That Your "Open Standard" May Not Be Open Enough
http://boycottnovell.com/2006/12/07/signs-that-your-open-standard-may-not-be-open-enough/
[9] Novell's "Danaergeschenk", by Georg Greve
http://groklaw.net/article.php?story=20061208135621706
[10] Sun slams Ecma's OpenXML OK
http://www.itweek.co.uk/itweek/news/2170681/sun-slams-ecma-openxml-ok
[11] The Way Forward -- Georg Greve Responds to Groklaw's Comments
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20061212025314700#comments
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