Google denies its Apps just a Microsoft Office add-on
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| Google staff don't like the suggestion that their own employees depend mostly
| on Microsoft Office even as Google Apps makes headway into the enterprise
| collaboration and e-mail market.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1697987130&rid=-50
Does the money trail lead to Microsoft. There's no telling who funded this
study, which is one among several that came out recently (also anti-ODF and
anti-Linux, from IDC). Speaking of 'buying' someone's approval:
No fasttrack for OOXML but ISO secretary continues to blunder!
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| The sad news is however that the ISO secretary blunders again. Despite the
| NO, ISO will have a Board Resolution Meeting in February. A BRM is basically
| a meeting where the ISO discusses the comments raised by the voting members
| and sees how it can satisfy these comments.
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http://www.masuran.org/node/95
The world's biggest populations say no (see below), but the ISO is moved by the
money, or by countries that are moved by the Microsoft Money Machine.
Related:
This Just In: China Votes "No with Comments" on OOXML
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| It's also interesting in that a large degree of public participation figured
| into the decision. For example, there is this on-line poll site, qwhich
| allows anyone to log on to indicate how they thought China should vote on
| OOXML. As of this moment, the voting was running 92.31% (8294 out of 8985
| votes cast) against approval.
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http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20070824182623970
India not for MS-backed Open XML as standard
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| The debate between the standards for the electronic documents — OXML and Open
| Document Format (ODF) became heated over the last few weeks, splitting the IT
| industry over the issue. The ODF standard is being supported by Sun, IBM and
| Red Hat amongst others. Simply put, standards are technical specifications
| that permit developers of software, hardware, and services to make and
| distribute products that would work with one another within a given context.
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http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2007/08/24/stories/2007082452600100.htm
OOXML: Brazil Says NO
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| After a very difficult and inconclusive meeting in ABNT (Brazilian Technical
| Standards Organization) office last Tuesday, the standards process director
| had to analyze the audio recording of all the meeting, review some facts,
| review again all 63+2 comments produced by the technical group about the ECMA
| specification, and conclude that a NO for OOXML is the correct position for
| Brazil in ISO Fast Track process.
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http://avi.alkalay.net/2007/08/ooxml-brazil-says-no.html
Malaysia formally embraces open doc format
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| The Malaysian government today announced plans to adopt open standards and
| the Open Document Format (ODF) within the country's public sector.
|
| [...]
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| In July this year, Japan became the first country in the Asia-Pacific region
| to embrace open software standards. Last August, the United Nations urged
| countries in the region to adopt the ODF.
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http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,62030781,00.htm
Government of Japan Embraces Open Software Standards
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| The OpenDocument Format Alliance (ODF Alliance), the leading organization
| advocating for openness and accessibility to government documents and
| information, today congratulated Japan for adopting a policy under which
| government ministries and agencies will solicit bids from software vendors
| whose products support internationally recognized open standards.
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http://www.govtech.com/gt/126612?topic=117674
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