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[News] [OSS] Malaysia Wants a Single Document Standard (ODF), Home of IBM to Decide As Well

Do we need two ISO standards for document format? - Part 4

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| Mr. Alan Bryden said that ISO will not approve two standards in the same 
| area and ISO has its own "consensus" process to ensure that. Into 
| this consensus process, Malaysia should give input that ODF is 
| the single standard Malaysia needs and the single standard ISO needs.
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http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2007/06/do_we_need_two_.html

Can New York make the case for ODF?

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| The New York state politician backing a bill that would order the 
| state to examine a switch to open document formats for official 
| business said Friday that she is optimistic her bill will escape 
| the fate of similar bills in five other states.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/061107-can-new-york-make-the.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news
http://tinyurl.com/26ns4j


Related:

Malaysia suspends ODF approval process

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| According to an article originally published earlier this week in
| the International Herald Tribune, a close observer to the Malaysian
| approval process said Sirim would actually prefer a merger between
| Open XML and ODF to create a single standard rather than two
| competing ones.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9015902&intsrc=hm_list
http://tinyurl.com/3xp8tj


Packing The Court At The ISO?

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|      ...P member countries ('participating member' countries) sending 
|     representatives, and I am interested to note the majority of
|     their representatives are, as individuals, also Microsoft employees.
| 
| [...]
| 
| How can they not see that OOXML (ECMA 376) is unwanted by anyone outside of 
| Microsoft? How about it Brian Jones? Are you really so desperate that you
| have to resort to that?
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http://lnxwalt.wordpress.com/2007/03/23/packing-the-court-at-the-iso/


Q&A: Former Mass. CIO feels 'bittersweet pride' after battles with Microsoft,
legislature

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| As CIO of Massachusetts from February to November last year, Louis 
| Gutierrez had to endure most of the brunt of Microsoft Corp.'s political 
| wrath over a state policy calling for the adoption of the Open Document 
| Format for Office Applications, or ODF -- a rival to the software vendor's 
| Office Open XML file format.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9012760&source=rss_news50


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|    Quinn:  Almost to a person, to anybody involved or who knows about
|    the ODF issue, they attributed the story to Microsoft, right, wrong
|    or otherwise. Senator Pacheco may be a bully but I do not believe he
|    is disingenious and would stoop to such a tactic. Senator Pacheco and
|    Secretary Galvin's office remain very heavily influenced by the
|    Microsoft money and its lobbyist machine, as witnessed by their
|    playbook and words, in my opinion.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20060119232859729


MA Governor-Elect Names MS Anti-ODF Lobbyist to Technology Advisory Group

http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20061128161343183


[OOXML] Math markup marked down

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| It appears that Science, the journal of the America Association for the 
| Advancement of Science (AAAS), itself the largest scientific society in the 
| world, has updated its authoring guidelines to include advice for Office 
| 2007 users. The news is not good.
| 
| [...]
| 
| Uh oh. Not only cannot you not submit files in OOXML format, but 
| you can't even use Office 2007 and save in the old binary formats. 
| The choice to invent a new "Open Math Markup Language" rather 
| then use the well-established existing standard, MathML, appears 
| to be a serious flaw.
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http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/04/math-markup-marked-down.html


In case you were wondering how big 6000 pages is: OpenXML/OOXML/whatever

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| Take a look at this photo from an OOXML workshop. (Read the blog entry
| too.) [Photo of a pile of 6,000+ pages]
| 
| I don't know what your job is, but imagine your boss came to you and
| said "read this, fully understand it, implement it perfectly, and make
| sure that it fully interoperates with the software being produced by
| anyone else doing the same." Translate this statement to your own job
| and stare again at that photo. What do you conclude?
| 
|     * You'll have lifetime employment trying to implement the spec.
|     * Your boss comes from another wacko parallel universe.
|     * This is a joke if not a travesty.
|     * Your job evaluation will not be very good next year.
|     * There is no way you can fully do the job without
|       reimplementing significant portions of Microsoft's product
|       portfolio and therefore you will run into intellectual
|       property problems. (Don?t think that's a problem?)
|     * Microsoft is trying to change the rules on what is a standard
|       and who can implement it.
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http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=1634

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