____/ Mark Kent on Friday 26 October 2007 15:21 : \____
> Erik Funkenbusch <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 01:11:42 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> XML vs Open
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote
>>>| I heard Microsoft claiming that OOXML is open because it is in XML. In
>>>| "open" they mean that anyone can use, process, manipulate, interpret OOXML
>>>| documents. Is that really so? I say not!
>>>|
>>>| [...]
>>>|
>>>| The claim from Microsoft regarding OOXML being open because it is an XML
>>>| format hits that very point I was making. This is just plain wrong and
>>>| people need to understand why.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://lehors.blogspot.com/2007/10/xml-vs-open.html
>>
>> From the article:
>>
>> "This is why the specification is so important, and this is one of the
>> reasons so many people have been complaining about OOXML. OOXML is so
>> poorly defined that there is no way two engineers in two different places
>> in the world can sit down, implement the specification, and except the same
>> behavior. The OOXML specification has way too many unspecified or
>> incompletely specified features."
>>
>> Funny, that's what experts are saying about ODF.
>>
>> http://testsuite.opendocumentfellowship.org/summary.html
>
> So what? ODF is an open standard - anyone can contribute to it.
> OOXML is not a standard at all, rather, a collection of incompatible
> and incomplete descriptions of a mixed-bag of definitions, some going
> back many years, where the definition is sometimes almost as puerile as
> "how it was done in word 2.0".
>
> The real standards will develop, the trojan horses will rot and collapse
> under the weight of their outer skins, revealing the corrupted and
> corrupting mess beneath.
>
> I wonder where you'll be sitting, Mr Off Topic and Anti Charter poster.
> Why don't you go to a group proper to your postings?
>
> Ahh... yes, because you don't think the rules should apply to you, do
> you? Just like your paymasters, you think it should be different for
> you. Well, matey, it's not. Leave, now, please, and take your rotting
> corruption with you.
By association, Erik is as criminal and corrupt as those whom he defends.
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
Read it, Erik. Learn what sick monster you play for.
Erik is a Sham. Here's Why.
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