ISO Ill at Ease Over OOXML
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| This is amazing: since when did proprietary lock-in represent “additional
| functionality”? That's a bit like saying handcuffs offer “additional
| functionality” to boring old handcuff-less freedom. Proprietary lock-in -
| even when dignified with the euphemistic moniker of "legacy documents" - is
| what open standards are supposed to avoid; touting it as an “extra” is a
| simple betrayal of the fundamental underlying idea.
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| [...]
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| In other words, ISO's FAQ, designed to quell the storm, ends up confirming
| many of the very issues its critics have raised, and feeding it. Well, I
| suppose that's a kind of progress.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=712&blogid=14
ISO is the next ECMA, fighting for one company against many governments,
universities, companies. Truly amazing this degree of corruption in the
system!
Introducing OpenDocument
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| The OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (ODF) is an XML
| standard that lets you store and exchange office application documents,
| including word-processor, spreadsheet, and presentation files. Whether you
| try to perform special tasks on files saved from such applications or work on
| applications to process such files, you should become familiar with this
| important format. Learn about the two possible forms of OpenDocument files,
| as multipart packages and as single XML documents, and learn how to structure
| text and tabular information in OpenDocument.
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http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/x-dw-x-odfintro.html?ca=dgr-lnxw03x-dw-x-odfintro&S_TACT=105AGX59&S_CMP=GRsitelnxw03
Recent:
ISO puts out a face-saving (it hopes) FAQ
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| Dear ISO, damage control doesn't work, if you let the damage remain. That's
| like putting out a statement that if an oil spill you caused does any damage
| in the future, you'll clean it up right away, but for now, you'll leave the
| spill in place and wait to see what happens going forward. Oil spills need to
| be cleaned up before they do more damage.
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| [...]
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| I am sure you are relieved to hear it. Anyway, now you know. If Microsoft
| plays dirty with patents, ISO might withdraw OOXML as a standard. And as
| we've seen watching the OOXML standards process play out, when ISO says
| something, they reeeeeally, reeealy mean it.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080415150233162
SC34 opens the flood gates to ECMA
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| In my French, ISO is to become the next ECMA International. Indeed, SC34
| expects more controversy to come: The participants in SC 34 propose to shield
| themselves from public criticism.
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-53066/sc34-opens-the-flood-gates-to-ecma
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'
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| [...]
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| 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
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