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Microsoft excludes competitors with OOXML patent license?
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| ECMA has just published two documents related to the patent licensing of
| ECMA376v1 and ECMA376v2. Microsoft promises to give a patent license under so
| called "reasonable terms". Reasonable for whom?
|
| [...]
|
| We have requested a commercial patent license in July, but radio silence
| since then on the Microsoft side. Yet another proof that the patent system
| does not work.
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-114765/microsoft-excludes-competitors-with-ooxml-patent-license
Recent:
Norwegians leave their Standards Body in protest
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| 13 members of the TC in Norway has left their Standards Body in protest. They
| say that the Standards Body has lost its credibility in the IT area. Remember
| that Standards Norway was voting Yes with the support of only 2 companies
| (Microsoft and Statoil), and against the will of the rest of the technical
| committee.
|
| [...]
|
| Oslo, Monday 29 september 2008
|
| We, the undersigned, are ending our cooperation with Standard Norway.
|
| It is the play when organizations should have our common interest aimed
| to fail the task. Through the work of OOXML Standard Norway has shown,
| with a clear margin, that they are not fit to represent Norway in the
| ISO.
|
| "Standardization of formats for content on the Web is more important than
| ever. A large part of mankind's communication is done digitally, and
| all - ALL - to have the ability to read and write these formats," said
| Haakon Wium Lie.
|
| Standard Norway chose to defy their own technical committee and vote yes
| to a specification that is immature, useless, and unworthy to is called
| an ISO standard.
|
| To Standard Norway has carried this process we consider that the
| organization has lost its credibility in the IT area. Standards Norway
| has set its own commercial interests ahead of what is most societies
| server, technological and academic advisable. "By participating in a
| further work in Standard Norway will we lose our academic credibility,"
| said Arne S. Nielsen.
|
| Therefore, we choose to stay out.
|
| We end our cooperation with Standard Norway because:
|
| * Standard administration has taken the option to emphasize 37 letter
| from Microsoft partners more than their own technical committee.
| * Standard process in Norway has been unpredictable and playing rules
| have been changed by the administration along the way.
| * SN and ISO have committed a series of violations of their own rules
| and other irregularities in the OOXML process.
|
| The undersigned:
|
| 1. Haakon Wium Lie
| 2. Martin Bekkelund (NUUG)
| 3. Petter Reinholdtsen (NUUG)
| 4. Linpro AS v/ Trond Heier Linpro AS v / Trond Heier
| 5. Bjørn Venn
| 6. Steve Pepper
| 7. Arne Sigurd Rognan Nielsen
| 8. Henning Kulander
| 9. Axel Bojer
| 10. Geir Isene
| 11. Thomas Malt
| 12. Anthony Lardahl (NUUG)
| 13. Knut Olav Bøhmer Knut
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-93970/norwegians-leave-their-standards-body-in-protest
Related:
EC probes OOXML standards-setting process
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| A spokesman for the European Commissioner for Competition, Neelie Kroes, told
| The Register that regulators were continuing to scrutinise interoperability
| issues related to Microsoft’s products following complaints from the
| Committee for Interoperable Systems (ECIS) group.
|
| As part of that process, the EC formally contacted a number of national
| standards bodies, including the Norwegian Standards Institute (NSI),
| requesting more details about possible irregularities in the OOXML
| standardisation process.
|
| [...]
|
| “It must be stressed that it is not the Commission's intention to influence
| the outcome of this process, but the Commission considers it essential to
| ensure that European competition law is not violated in the course of the
| standard setting process,” he said in an email to El Reg.
|
| In January the EC began formal anti-trust probes against Microsoft in two
| cases where it was alleged that the multinational firm had abused its strong
| market position. As part of the investigation into the first case, the
| Commission said that it would scrutinise OOXML on the grounds that the
| specification doesn't work with those of competitors.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/04/ooxml_ec_investigation_iso/
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