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Re: [News] FFII President Explains What OOXML is REALLY About

____/ Mark Kent on Saturday 21 July 2007 10:30 : \____

> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Fighting OOXML
>> 
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| The normally boring world of international standards has turned into a
>>| bloody fist fight between the most brutal monopolist of modern times, and
>>| the Community. Just the name, ?Office Open XML? makes my head spin, and
>>| when I start to read Microsoft?s so-sincere explanations that ?users demand
>>| multiple standards?, my blood begins to boil. But before I turn green and
>>| rip off my shirt, let me take a deep breath and look calmly at how
>>| Microsoft is trying to do to ISO what Borat wanted to do to Pamela.
>>| 
>>| [...]
>>| 
>>| This fight is over the future of Microsoft?s desktop monopoly. If OOXML
>>| gets passed as an ISO standard, Microsoft will be rolling out more
>>| ?standards? and end up with a stack of ISO standards that only it can
>>| implement. It is already spinning ?open standard? to mean ?closed format
>>| heavily protected by secrets and patents?. Free software won?t be able to
>>| implement OOXML, and users will be locked-in to Microsoft?s proprietary
>>| world for decades. It?s a clever abuse of the standards process.
>> `----
>> 
>> http://www.fsdaily.com/Community/Fighting_OOXML-1/
>> 
>> Microsoft Sprang October Surprise on Novell
>> 
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| Ahh, it seems that Novell didn't know until two weeks before its infamous
>>| deal with Microsoft was announced that there was a sine qua non patent
>>| component to the thing. The poor little innocent thought Microsoft was
>>| negotiating interoperability for the sake of interoperability until
>>| Microsoft had Novell salivating like Pavlov's dogs and then Microsoft
>>| explained the fact of life. We have this tale from someone who was there
>>| and says it's true.
>> `----
>> 
>> http://www.sys-con.com/read/405243.htm
>> 
> 
> I refer you to the article I wrote long ago on the Novell/Microsoft
> deal.  It would seem to be pretty good!


Yes, it's very correct in hindsight.

http://boycottnovell.com/2006/11/23/novell-mark-kent/


>> Noooxml-club -- NoOOXML CLub
>> 
>> https://lists.ffii.org/mailman/listinfo/noooxml-club


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