Why the OOXML Vote Still Matters: A Proposal to Recognize the Need for “Civil
ICT Standards”
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| In this way, standards can protect – or not – the rights of the individual to
| fully participate in the highly technical environment into which the world is
| now evolving. Among other rights, standards can guarantee:
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| * That any citizen can use any product or service, proprietary or open,
| that she desires when interacting with her government.
| * That any citizen can use any product or service when interacting with
| any other citizen, and to exercise every civil right.
| * That any entrepreneur can have equal access to marketplace
| opportunities at the technical level, independent of the market power
| of existing incumbents.
| * That any person, advantaged or disadvantaged, and anywhere in the
| world, can have equal access to the Internet and the Web in the most
| available and inexpensive method possible.
| * That any owner of data can have the freedom to create, store, and move
| that data anywhere, any time, throughout her lifetime, without risk of
| capture, abandonment or loss due to dependence upon a single vendor.
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http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20080224143425160
Monday morning: OOXML BRM tidbits
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| The ECMA resolution proposals are just some possible ways of dealing with the
| comments. If there is not time to deal with all the comments then maybe, just
| maybe, people might realize that OOXML should not be in the Fast Track
| process. Of course, there has been evidence for that from the beginning.
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http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=2075
Related:
OOXML is too hard to implement … even for Microsoft
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| So various things could be true here:
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| * Microsoft is not putting proper resources behind maintenance of Office
| 2004 for the Macintosh.
| * The software engineers working on Office 2004 for the Macintosh aren’t
| very good.
| * OOXML at 6000+ pages is just too hard a specification for expert
| software engineers working closely with the people who designed OOXML
| to be implemented easily and completely.
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http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=2069
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| "[Microsoft:] For example, we should take the lead in establishing a common
| approach to UI and to interoperability (of which OLE is only a part). Our
| efforts to date are focussed too much on our own apps, and only incidentally
| on the rest of the industry. We want to own these standards, so we should
| not participate in standards groups. Rather, we should call 'to me' to the
| industry and set a standard that works now and is for everyone's
| benefit. We are large enough that this can work."
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http://www.os2site.com/sw/info/comes/px09509.zip
Microsoft admits Swedish employee promised incentives for Open XML support
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| Microsoft Corp. admitted Wednesday that an employee at its Swedish subsidiary
| offered monetary compensation to partners for voting in favor of the Office
| Open XML document format's approval as an ISO standard.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9033701
Corrupt countries were more likely to support the OOXML document format
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| Is this just a random coincidence? The median of the CPI index of the above
| mentioned 70 countries is 3.95. Of the most corrupted half (CPI index less
| than 3.95) 23 or 77% voted for approval (approval or approval with comments)
| and 7 or 23% for disapproval; 5 abstained. Of the least corrupted half (CPI
| index more than 3.95) 13 or 54% voted for approval and 11 or 46% voted for
| disapproval; 11 abstained - see the table below.
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http://www.effi.org/blog/kai-2007-09-05.en.html
Microsoft accused of more OOXML standards fiddling
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| However the 11 new countries are refusing to say how they will vote. These
| include Cote d'Ivoire, Cyprus, Ecuador, Jamaica, Lebanon, Malta, Pakistan,
| Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Uruguay and Venezuela. Most people seem to think
| that these have been put there by Vole to make sure the standard gets pushed
| through.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=42106
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