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[News] Microsoft Still Plans to Ram PDF Rival Down ISO's Throat (Duplicate 'Standards')

  • Subject: [News] Microsoft Still Plans to Ram PDF Rival Down ISO's Throat (Duplicate 'Standards')
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 22:35:03 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
XPS: new format, same people, same tactics

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| What do have OOXML and XPS have in common? Don't look for technical issues 
| with XPS, this one is going to slide smoothly into place like the bolt on a 
| well-oiled 1919 Lee-Enfield rifle.  
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-51353/xps:new-format-same-people-same-tactics

Possibly with an anti-GPL OSP.

"Microsoft: still a bunch of gangsters."

          -- Financial Times Writer, reaction to Microsoft 'open' pledge, 2008

http://fussnotes.typepad.com/plexnex/2008/02/wilcox-watch-bu.html


Related:

Interesting headline regarding XPS

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| This is a pessimistic view, of course, but I would love to be proven 
| wrong. That means a fully transparent process where all minutes and 
| group emails are public. This means a full and open plan for the 
| active maintenance of the standard. This means a full description
|  of how the intellectual property will be be handled for everything 
| necessary to implement the specification. This means a complete 
| implementation for every platform, including Linux and the Mac.
| 
| That is, the opposite of OOXML.
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http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=1707


Ecma XML Paper Specification (XPS) Standard: Working Draft 1.0.1

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| This working draft 1.0.1 "XML Paper Specification" submitted to Ecma TC46 by 
| Microsoft in September 2007 is available in PDF format and XPS format. 
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http://www.activewin.com/awin/comments.asp?HeadlineIndex=40963


Martin Bryan: we are getting “standardization by corporation”

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| A November informative report of Martin Bryan, Convenor, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34 
| WG1 highlights the fallout of the ECMA-376 fast-track process for ISO. He 
| says he is 'glad to be retiring before the situation becomes impossible'  
| 
| [...]
| 
| In what is an astonishingly outspoken report, Martin Bryan, Convenor, ISO/IEC 
| JTC1/SC34 WG1 has given us insight into the total mess that Microsoft/ECMA 
| have caused during their scandalous, underhand and unremitting attempts to 
| get - what is a very poorly written specification {i.e. DIS 29500 aka OOXML, 
| AR} - approved as an ISO standard. …    
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-30107/martin-bryan:we-are-getting-standardization-by-corporation


Dysfunctional ISO - Courtesy of Microsoft

http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2007/12/dysfunctional-iso-courtesy-of-microsoft.html


Microsoft accused of stacking ISO committee

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| In a memo sent following his last meeting as head of the working group on 
| WG1, which is handling Microsoft’s application to make the Word format an ISO 
| standard as ECMA 376, outgoing Governor Martin Bryan (above), an expert on 
| SGML and XML, accused the company of stacking his group.   
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1777

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