Closing Day at the Release Event
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| Alexander from OpenOffice talked about some of the possibilities of
| OpenDocument including dedicated C libraries to process the format which
| could be shared between apps. KOffice developers discussed plans for an
| OpenDocument API in kdelibs to make use of the format available throughout
| KDE.
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http://dot.kde.org/1200936055/
Microsoft will continue to corrupt the whole world in attempts to sabotage
ODF...
OFFICE WARS : Will Microsoft get to set the global standard?
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| Blogger Karl - whose cash cow slaughter comments are quoted above - is far
| from unique in this conflict, which pits Microsoft against IBM, Sun, Google,
| China and the entire open source community, to name a few, over the future of
| Office Open eXtensible Markup Language (OOXML), the core of Office 2007, as a
| viable procurement option for governments and companies committed to
| buying "standards compliant" software.
|
| [...]
|
| Earlier this month, Mr Brown reported that there would be 40 national bodies
| represented at the BRM (including New Zealand), of which 27 voted against (or
| abstained from voting on) the fast-tracking of OOXML in September.
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http://www.nbr.co.nz/home/column_article.asp?id=19899&cid=3&cname=Technology
Related:
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
OOXML Questions Microsoft Cannot Answer in Geneva
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| At Left: Highly respected Martin Bryan. As outgoing Conveyor of ISO/IEC
| JTC1/SC34 WG1 he accused MS of stacking his group and said, “The days of open
| standards development are fast disappearing. Instead we are
| getting ’standardization by corporation,’ something I have been fighting
| against for the 20 years I have served on ISO committees.”
|
| The trend is that Microsoft is opening up the boring legacy bits of OOXML, in
| stupefying detail, while neglecting to document the pieces actually needed
| for interoperability at a competitive level, like macros, scripting,
| encryption, etc. In essence, Microsoft is opening up and releasing the file
| format information that competitors like OpenOffice.org have already figured
| out on their own, while still at the same time restricting access to the
| information needed to compete. And the more MS realizes it has to open up the
| specification, deprecate and modernize OOXML, what do you get? You get XML.
| XML is XML. Strip out the non-XML garbage from OOXML and you will have the
| OpenDocument Format.
|
| [...]
|
| We need for MICROSOFT TO ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS. Rather than hiding all the
| information we need and trying to cloak OOXML as ODF, we ask Microsoft to
| please get off the sinking ship, collaborate with the global community (which
| will welcome Microsoft) and help develop one universal file format for all.
| Long term, Microsoft can only benefit from cooperating with the market!
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http://www.fanaticattack.com/2008/ooxml-questions-microsoft-cannot-answer-in-geneva.html
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