How OOXML vote could change all -- and nothing
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| Whether the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) should adopt
| OOXML is a question that has fuelled a blog battle between supporters and
| opponents, ahead of this week's meeting in Geneva to finalize the text that
| will be put to the vote.
|
| But will the final decision even matter?
|
| Definitely not, according to Andy Updegrove, a Boston lawyer who works with
| industry standards bodies.
|
| [...]
|
| Whatever the outcome of the vote, that secrecy is one of the things that
| should change in the way IT standards are developed, Sutor said.
|
| "Minutes should be published. This secrecy ... has to end," he said.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1776565889&rid=-50
Standards Body Weighs Microsoft’s Competing Format For Document Sharing
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| Reactions to the BRM have been mixed. Jonathan Zuck of the Association for
| Competitive Technology, which counts Microsoft as a member and issued a
| statement in support of the standard, said that OOXML is just as deserving as
| ODF of standardisation, as “only OOXML offers full fidelity for storage of
| existing documents” from prior versions of word-processing software.
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http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=938
Paid shill, spinner, scum.
Proprietary past looms over Microsoft OOXML hopes
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| "There's a lot of collaboration going on between the various national bodies
| attending the meeting at the moment, so we can expect to hear an announcement
| on the outcome of the meeting from its convener by the weekend," said Sarah
| Bond, platform strategy manager for Microsoft.
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http://news.zdnet.co.uk/itmanagement/0,1000000308,39359136,00.htm
Secret meeting, bought by Microsoft. Luckily, the EU will have them punished,
so more trouble lies ahead.
More importantly, as a question to be asked, why was there no public access to
a process involving a decision that affects us all? We should take pride in
the process, should we not?
Recent:
Linux Foundation: Microsoft's OOXML Argument 'Ridiculous'
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| "What I'd love to see is Microsoft adopt the already existing ISO standard,"
| Zemlin says, referring to the OpenDocument Format (ODF) backed by Google and
| others. "It's akin to Microsoft going to the United States Congress and
| proposing an alternative bumper heights."
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http://www.crn.com/software/206900276;jsessionid=CIDB0BZULPGHOQSNDLOSKHSCJUNN2JVN
A renewed wish for open document standards
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| Currently, the technology industry is evaluating a proposed ISO standard for
| document formats. Given the importance of a workable standard, Microsoft's
| submission of Office Open XML (OOXML ) as an additional international
| standard has caught the attention of many. In September 2007, the original
| request to ISO was defeated. After further technical analysis of the
| specification along with all the additional data available on OOXML, Google
| believes OOXML would be an insufficient and unnecessary standard, designed
| purely around the needs of Microsoft Office.
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http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/renewed-wish-for-open-document.html
Related:
Bam! Comical Creese debunks OpenDocumentFormat Alliance
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| You are free to inspect the irregularities website that documents few cases
| reported by the online press and blogs. We got much more reports on an
| informal base per email. The Swedish single employee story is not credible,
| actually committee stuffing took place in Sweden.
|
| On loopholes, that’s another subjective call, but since Microsoft
| competitors managed to establish control over a standards initiative with
| potentially dire consequences for one of Microsoft’s most important
| business domains, we are not surprised that Microsoft (legitimately,
| albeit with what some consider to be poor standards etiquette) exploited
| the loopholes. As we noted, we assume ISO will update its procedures to
| eliminate the loopholes in the future.
|
| What?
|
| Microsoft competitors managed to establish control over a standards
| initiative…
|
| What?
|
| Microsoft competitors managed to establish control over a standards
| initiative with potentially dire consequences for one of Microsoft’s most
| important business domains, we are not surprised that Microsoft …
| exploited the loopholes.
|
| ???
|
| but since Microsoft competitors managed to establish control over a
| standards initiative with potentially dire consequences for one of
| Microsoft’s most important business domains, we are not surprised that
| Microsoft (legitimately, albeit with what some consider to be poor
| standards etiquette) exploited the loopholes.
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-41447/bam-comical-creese-debunks-opendocumentformat-alliance
Microsoft’s secretive standards orgs in Former Yugoslavia
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| Croatian laws keep its national body’s votes secret, so the only way for the
| Croatian public to find out how the process went would be if a board member
| illegally leaked information out of CSI. This is, of course, unlikely to
| happen. And the Serbian national standardization body is not officially
| formed, so those two votes were easy for Microsoft, and probably not only
| ones around the globe.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/092407-ooxml.html?page=1
Microsoft Tech Ed 2007: OpenXML
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| He was asked "Why did Microsoft push OOXML through the "Fast Track" process
| instead of the standard ISO process? Wouldn't they get less resistance than
| faced now?"
|
| His response was very frank: "Office is a USD$10 billion revenue generator
| for the company. When ODF was made an ISO standard, Microsoft had to react
| quickly as certain governments have procurement policies which prefer ISO
| standards. Ecma and OASIS are 'international standards', but ISO is the
| international 'Gold Standard'. Microsoft therefore had to rush this standard
| through. Its a simple matter of commercial interests!"
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