Burton study: Follow the herd
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| When you are a large customer you are powerful. Never admit that you still
| depend on Microsoft products. It is plain stupid. Start your Linux pilot.
| This annoys your supplier and secures you an appeasement cash-in. Consider
| alternative products and talk about them. That drives them so crazy that they
| even draft contracts that prohibits you to talk about alternative software.
| Eventually you find out that you don't need their products. Better for you.
| Stick to midterm open standards migration. The IDABC definition gets it best,
| this is why they invest so much in lobbying against. I am very curious how
| the Open Specification Promise (OSP) would make OOXML IDABC Open standards
| compatible. I strongly doubt it is.
|
| [...]
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| OOXML is part of a negotiation process. Can Microsoft be forced to support
| ODF? Absolutely. The stronger the rest of the market negotiates the better
| the results. No one benefits from bowing in.
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-36362/burton-study:follow-the-herd
The OOXML bunch is boringly disappointing.
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| And I’m not afraid to write it again: What are you guys think you’re doing?
| Level up the fight, I’m yawning!
|
| First there is that “oh, we forgot we never gave you the specs of our binary
| file format” game popping up again through Brian Jones, as if nobody had seen
| that one coming. So what’s wrong with this? Let me write that again in an
| easy way: If Microsoft were truly delivering the whole specs, not only would
| the OOXML spec be at least half smaller, (why do you need all these mysteries
| about faithfully representing past application behaviors?), but the whole
| OOXML hoax would be made completely useless.
|
| [...]
|
| Besides, there are two elements that are left undiscussed here: Wether
| Microsoft will actually deliver the specs entirely and not just partially
| just like they already did before, and when they will publish the specs. All
| what we have here is, yes, we will deliver you the specs, and you will be
| prompted to sign a license agreement before you can actually read anything,
| so that’s again an old story, just like they did during the ballot period in
| France.
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http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/01/19/the-ooxml-bunch-is-boringly-disappointing/
"We should dedicate a cross-group team to come up with ways to leverage Windows
technically more."
--Jim Allchin, Microsoft fiend, Vista escapee, and UNIX wannabe
Related:
Printer binary and ECMA tries duck and cover
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| In short it means ECMA finds Open XML shall remain an incomplete specified
| and inconsistent format. Some elements are still (in the spec undocumented)
| binary. It is hard to understand why DEVMODE structures cannot be transformed
| to XML for consistency reasons. Ah! "High-fidelity" of course which means
| everything but in particular that your XML format is a projection of the
| binary format, also by some referred to as a "dump" of the old legacy format.
| Even more fidelity is guaranteed when you just take the binary. In wonder why
| the drafters of the format started this WordprocessingML and didn't add
| support for the highest fidelity of the doc format inside the open packaging
| zip container.
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-36122/printer-binary-and-ecma-tries-duck-and-cover
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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