How Many Contradictions Can Dance on the Head of a Pin?
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| Yesterday, I learned that the Executive Board of INCITS decided
| earlier in the day not to propose to ANSI that any contradictions
| need be identified between OOXML and any ISO/IEC standards,
| Directives or other rules. The reason is that Microsoft, which
| has a member on the committee, has persuaded a sufficient number
| of members of the INCITS Executive Board to adopt a very
| conservative definition for a "contradiction" - that definition
| being essentially the one articulated by Brian Jones at his blog
| - that a contradiction arises only where a system could not run
| two products, each of which implements one of the two
| specifications in question.
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http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20070131184453743
Related:
The Open XML Lie
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| 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:
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| * 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
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http://3monkeyweb.com/3monkeys/2007/01/17/the-open-xml-lie/
The Formats of Excel 2007
http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/01/formats-of-excel-2007.html
Is Open XML a one way specification for most people?
http://sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=1145
Is Office Open XML A One-Way Standard? Ask Microsoft
http://blogs.adobe.com/shebanation/2006/12/open_xml_one-way.html
Novell's "Danaergeschenk", by Georg Greve
http://groklaw.net/article.php?story=20061208135621706
Sun slams Ecma's OpenXML OK
http://www.itweek.co.uk/itweek/news/2170681/sun-slams-ecma-openxml-ok
The Way Forward -- Georg Greve Responds to Groklaw's Comments
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20061212025314700
Open XML: Six thousand pages, one month, no chance...
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| Weary of cynicism, I've tried to believe that Microsoft's
| approach to international open document standards really does
| have the user in mind. I want to believe: there's enough
| nonsense to worry about without having to worry about
| gratuitously complex, changing, proprietary standards.
| If Microsoft agrees, as it says it does, and is genuinely
| on the road to taking that worry away, then by gum I'll
| be happy never to think about it again.
|
| [...]
|
| The answer is to game the system. As part of this, the company
| has created (by itself, unlike Open Doc) a proposal for OOXML
| that is six thousand pages long, and then put it into the
| fast-track approval system with very minimal time for
| discussion and objection.
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http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10004805o-2000331777b,00.htm
FFII opposes Fasttrack adoption of Microsoft OOXML format as ISO standard
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| 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.
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http://press.ffii.org/Press_releases/FFII_opposes_Fasttrack_adoption_of_Microsoft_OOXML_format_as_ISO_standard
http://tinyurl.com/2qxk7p
Open source lobby fury over Office format fast-track
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| The duo claim the process means Europe is being 'railroaded
| into accepting an 'inadequate' standard.
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http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/102898/open-source-lobby-fury-over-office-format-fasttrack.html
http://tinyurl.com/37vouh
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