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The ISO Document: India's and Venezuela's Appeals, as text
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| NB/MB COmment VE-0002 - BRM Question Number 142 - Covered in BRM? No -
| Appropriately addressed? NO. The use of BLOBs (Binary Large Objects) is
| maintained, without specifying mechanisms for retrieving/displaying them
| and also leaving the implementation up to the developer without any
| specification.
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| That's geek for "No one can use OOXML at the moment but Microsoft, because
| only it knows how to retrieve/display the proprietary parts." Is it a
| standard if only one proprietary company can implement it fully, because only
| they have the key to all the doors, so to speak? Isn't equal access and full
| specification kind of the point of a standard?
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080714094051151
Technical lunacy aside, OOXML has been crime. All well documented.
Related:
Software wars
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| Allegations of committee-stuffing, the outcome of votes overridden by
| political appointees, a final decision that many involved consider tainted:
| this may sound like a discredited election in some third world country. But
| it is actually a description of an ugly fight over international technical
| standards that wrapped up this week. Microsoft came out on top, but at the
| cost of tarnishing its reputation and the credibility of an important
| back-room process that oils the wheels of many global industries.
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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/c9743360-01a8-11dd-a323-000077b07658,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F0%2Fc9743360-01a8-11dd-a323-000077b07658.html%3Fnclick_check%3D1&_i_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.computerworlduk.com%2Ftool
Sarkozy intervenes in France to revert the OOXML position
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| Confidential sources say that President Sarkozy has intervened himself in the
| French position on Microsoft OOXML, asking members of the committee to revert
| their position, and support an abstention. Our sources say he was approached
| by a lobbyist during his 3-days trip in England. The intervention has been
| made on Friday.
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-50670/sarkozy-intervenes-in-france-to-revert-the-ooxml-position
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