Cruel truth surfaces in the OOXML war
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| Tsilas is admitting, more explicitly than implicitly, that Microsoft's profit
| depends on it controlling standards and that OOXML is a product designed to
| do exactly that. The mask has slipped and the nature of this particular war
| is on display. As Ericson, captain of HMS Compass Rose, might say: we are
| sorry if it is too hard for you, Microsoft.
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http://news.zdnet.co.uk/leader/0,1000002982,39292519,00.htm
In Malaysia, Microsoft has already admitted that it's all a matter of
commercial interests. Digusting.
For the time being, there are many ODF-compliant applications including OOo.
175,000 US dollars for OpenOffice from Sun
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| Sun Microsystems has published some details about the Open Source Community
| Innovation Awards it announced in December of 2007.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/102710/from/rss09
Related:
Open Source Society warns of Open XML patent threat
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| But Christie says alarm bells are going off in many parts of the world over
| Open XML. He says many aspects of the format remain proprietary and because
| of this the process behind its development has not been robust.
|
| He says the Open Document Format standard went through three years of public
| standardisation before being submitted to the International Standards
| Organisation, while Open XML was rushed out at "an unprecedented pace".
|
| The areas where interoperability breaks down are where the detail is
| just not there, Christie says, either because of haste or to protect
| proprietary methods. Add the issue of portability across platforms, he says,
| and OOXML fails to deliver two of the three hallmarks of a good standard.
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http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/tech/3CA53767B17F2736CC257338001C62AD
Guest Commentary: The converter hoax
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| Microsoft maintains that while it would have been easy to support the Open
| Document Format (ODF) natively, it had to move to MS-OOXML because this was
| the only way for them to offer the full features of its office suite. But if
| Microsoft itself is not able to represent its internal data structures in the
| Open Document Format (ODF) in its Microsoft Office suite, how could an
| external conversion program from MS-OOXML accomplish this task? The answer to
| both questions is that it is not possible because two things cannot be the
| same and different at the same time.
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http://www.heise.de/open/artikel/92735
How the Game is Played: INCITS V1 Narrowly Votes Down OOXML
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| As significantly, Rob reports that a very dramatic increase in the membership
| of V1 was observed in the months leading up to the vote – most of whom were
| coincidentally were representatives of Microsoft business partners, and the
| great majority of whom voted as a block in favor of advancing the
| specification in a manner that would permit, and against any vote that would
| prevent, final approval as an ISO/IEC standard.
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http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20070715200544734
Sock Puppets to VoteSock Puppets to Vote on Monopoly Enablement in Colombia?
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| Microsoft sets the deck of card and ensures that (at least) 9 of out 14
| chairs in the technical committee are also in its pocket.
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http://boycottnovell.com/2007/08/03/colombia-ooxml/
Microsoft is Outmuscling OOXML Opposition in Spain
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| The Andalusian Government has reported recently the manipulation of Microsoft
| in the National Technical Committee 71 of AENOR. On July 10th, just the day
| before the one and only meeting of AENOR to study DIS 29500 and vote on it,
| Microsoft announced officially (via the secretary of the Committee) that that
| Andalusian Government and several other Spanish public entities were asking
| for the approval of ISO DIS 29500 (what finally resulted all a fake!).
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http://boycottnovell.com/2007/07/27/ooxmll-spain/
IBM is still locked out of the Portuguese OOXML meeting
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| In spite of various communications, we [IBM] are still locked out and will
| not be allowed to participate. Microsoft will be there, as well as a special
| Microsoft guest, as will various Microsoft business partners, and others.
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http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=1755
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