Problems ahead:
OOXML Woes Continue as Norway Files Protest with ISO Relating to its Own Vote
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| OpenDocument and OOXMLOne of the things that most of us learn at our mother's
| knee is that you shouldn't rush things. If you do, you'll make silly
| mistakes. Mothers also tend to tell their children to play by the rules, but
| some apparently listen better than others to that advice as well.
|
| The wisdom of the first truism was demonstrated most clearly during the
| Ballot Resolution Meeting in Geneva, although its effects had been evident
| throughout the entire Fast Track process. In the latest evidence of the
| other truism, the first formal protest has been filed with ISO over a
| National Body vote. The National Body in question is Norway, and the protest
| has been filed by...(wait for it)...Norway itself.
|
| How can all of this be true in a country like Norway? Elections this flawed
| usually only occur in Florida.
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http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20080331114700984
Deadlock over OOXML
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| CONTROVERSY over the proposed Office Open XML standard forced Standards
| Australia to abstain as international balloting concluded overnight.
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http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,23462870-15306,00.html
Consequences of crimes perhaps:
As the Linux star rises, it seems the Microsoft star is falling.
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| So while microsoft continues to fight an outmoded fight with outmoded
| business tactics it will be washed out by the new wave of computing that is
| fast approaching the consumer shore. I would advise you to get your Linux
| water wings now and start learning to swim before you suddenly find that
| either your pool has run dry or you are in deeper water than you think.
|
| [...]
|
| As you can see in 2004 it was ranked 11th. Last year it dropped down to a low
| of 59th. That is a very big drop over four years and especially significant
| when other computer related companies have stayed relatively flat. It is also
| significant that Linux started really making an appearance to the mainstream
| public as a viable alternative and stable OS around four years ago.
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http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/linux/locutus/archives/as-the-linux-star-rises-it-seems-the-microsoft-star-is-falling-23431
The 'win' Microsoft is likely to regret (just like the RIAA):
OOXML (DIS29500) Result: Approved
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| ISO is furthermore an irrelevance in technology standardisation.
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http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/04/01/ooxml-dis29500-result-approved/
OOXML results in, ISO stalls
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| If Microsoft gets its technology approved, it will be a blow to internet
| connectivity and issues of data ownership. They already refuse to comply with
| web standards for their Internet Explorer browser and make using their
| operating systems next to impossible, especially the newest version of
| Windows, Vista. To assume they’d remain compliant with ISO regulations once
| approved is ludicrous, this is, after all, Microsoft we are talking about.
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http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/2008/04/01/ooxml-results-in-iso-stalls/
Corruption continue to stand in the way of more competition. Not better
products, but corruption. The brand will subsequently sink (and stink)
further.
Related:
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
Similar to RIAA tactics, which backfire:
Grandmother targets RIAA ‘investigators’
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| Taking a page out of Tanya Andersen’s book, Hurricane Rita survivor
| Rhonda Crain is also targeting the RIAA practice of using
| unlicensed ‘investigators’ in its bizarre sue ‘em all marketing
| campaign.
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http://www.p2pnet.net/story/12674
RIAA faces serious piracy lawsuit
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| A lawsuit recently filed against the Recording Industry Assn. of America
| could ultimately force the org to drop or dramatically change the way it uses
| its principal weapon in the fight against online piracy, according to experts
| and observers.
|
| The case -- filed in Oregon and asserting claims under the Computer Fraud and
| Abuse Act and the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act --
| details the RIAA's alleged use of "illegal and flawed" methods when
| investigating people for downloading or swapping copyrighted songs without
| paying for them.
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http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117971146.html?categoryId=16&cs=1
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