Fighting OOXML
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| 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.
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| 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.
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http://www.fsdaily.com/Community/Fighting_OOXML-1/
Microsoft Sprang October Surprise on Novell
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| 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.
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http://www.sys-con.com/read/405243.htm
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