GNOME Foundation defends OOXML involvement
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| Instead, I suspect that many in the community would agree with Ossendryver's
| statement on his blog that "The participation of GNOME in ECMA TC45’s
| apparent subversion of the standards process is a major disservice to FOSS
| and all in the community who have worked so hard for open platforms and open
| standards." From this position, what matters is loyalty -- and that, for
| many, seems to mean support only for ODF and a complete boycott of any
| efforts to make OOXML a standard. Far from clarifying matters, the
| Foundation's statement may very well serve only to confirm this position and
| to justify the paranoia about its motives.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/121930
More here: http://boycottnovell.com/2007/11/23/novell-helps-ooxml-2/
Related:
Uh Oh. Another Smooth Move from Microsoft: Watch out, Ruby. Watch out OSI.
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| Let me please clarify something for you. Most of us do *not* want Microsoft
| to participate. I would like to personally barricade Microsoft out, until it
| alters its negative, rapacious and hostile behavior toward the GPL and FOSS.
| And so should you.
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| Speaking for myself, I wouldn't invite them to speak at conferences or take
| their money. I know. That's the hard part for some. I wouldn't pretend the
| company isn't what it is, because it *is* what it is. This is starting to
| feel like Wonderland, where Alice finds that up is down and large is small
| and nothing is the same or logical. Think tea party strange.Why would anyone
| want Microsoft to participate? Seriously. Why? And no, patent deals with
| Novell don't make me like them. I despise them for what they did, and I know
| what it means. They intend to coopt Linux, destroy the GPL, and hop on board
| to make some money, honey. Oh, and kill it if it doesn't wish to be ridden,
| while isolating and rendering pointless and helpless all developers who won't
| go along. Why would you hope for that? Seriously. Why?
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070730120109643
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| Pieter Hintjens, president of the Foundation for a Free Information
| Infrastructure, a non-profit organisation that is campaigning against the
| Microsoft proposal, said: "We've recorded fairly systematic manipulation of
| the voting process. We've seen what amounts to vote-buying in Italy,
| Portugal, Colombia, Spain. In Sweden and Denmark, much the same happened –
| Microsoft paying their business partners to join the vote."
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http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarticle.aspx?feed=FT&Date=20070830&ID=7401878
Corrupt countries were more likely to support the OOXML document format
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| Is this just a random coincidence? The median of the CPI index of the above
| mentioned 70 countries is 3.95. Of the most corrupted half (CPI index less
| than 3.95) 23 or 77% voted for approval (approval or approval with comments)
| and 7 or 23% for disapproval; 5 abstained. Of the least corrupted half (CPI
| index more than 3.95) 13 or 54% voted for approval and 11 or 46% voted for
| disapproval; 11 abstained - see the table below.
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http://www.effi.org/blog/kai-2007-09-05.en.html
Microsoft accused of more OOXML standards fiddling
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| However the 11 new countries are refusing to say how they will vote. These
| include Cote d'Ivoire, Cyprus, Ecuador, Jamaica, Lebanon, Malta, Pakistan,
| Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Uruguay and Venezuela. Most people seem to think
| that these have been put there by Vole to make sure the standard gets pushed
| through.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=42106
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