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Eyeballs Needed for ODF
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| I can tell you that from what I know, and I know a fair amount, that X marks
| the spot where a lot of eyeballs are needed. I have no doubt that Microsoft
| wishes to use ODF for its own purposes, and I know for a fact that some kind
| of liaison is what some who seem to me to be happily doing whatever Microsoft
| wants have been hoping for, namely some mechanism for ODF to coordinate with
| SC34 in ISO that would operate a bit like the relationship between the
| Unicode Consortium and JTC 1/SC 2, who jointly maintain the Unicode standard.
|
| [...]
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| This is the moment to pay full attention, if this is something you care about
| and you wish to avoid the Microsoft EEE. Stay polite at all times, of course,
| if you say anything, and you needn't say anything, but do follow along and
| please keep us posted on anything you see that sounds peculiar. I'll try to
| do the same.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080607193757737
Microsoft OOXML opponents won’t back down
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| If Microsoft wants its standard to stand on equal footing with the ODF, it
| needs to stop embedding closed binary objects in the Office format, and stop
| treating it as proprietary.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2509
Recent:
A Reminder: ISO's Code of Ethics & What Happens Next
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| Or in plainer English, they very same folks who brought you OOXML will decide
| if they did a good job.
|
| OOXML, the apparently unusable standard that not only we, the public, are not
| allowed to see, but National Bodies have yet to see, despite a set deadline
| in the rules for them to have it in hand. How odd that it would not be
| published prior to the deadline for appeals to be filed. Does that mean the
| deadline isn't really the deadline, since other so-called deadlines have
| proven so squishy? I don't know, but it makes logical sense that it's
| unreasonable to expect appeals to be filed regarding a format whose final
| draft folks haven't seen.
|
| Hence, a reminder of the stated principles in ISO's Code of Ethics about due
| process and transparency, as well as a reminder that the whole world is
| watching.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2008053102051270
A Memo to Patrick Durusau
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| I really must commend Patrick Durusau's innate capability of writing the most
| inflammatory and outrageous publications, publications that are so divorced
| from reality that one cannot help but think that the dude must be hoarding
| some seriously good weed to be able to live so completely within his own
| defined existence. His latest publication, "Not With a Bang, but With a
| Whimper", has been receiving flak from the collective open standards
| community for exactly that reason and rightly so.
|
| [...]
|
| Microsoft has been running an anti-ODF campaign in favour of OOXML for a long
| long time now. In Malaysia, their campaign started with opposition to
| Malaysia's proposed adoption of ODF ISO26300:2006 as a voluntary standard by
| invoking Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt on the ODF standard. The campaign
| continued on by personally attacking members of the technical committee who
| were in favour of ODF, by casting undue aspersions on their characters, in
| particular, insinuating that we were subversive agents of IBM intent on the
| destruction of Microsoft (apparently, anybody who supports truly open
| standards is a biased IBM agent).
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http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2008/06/the-weed-whispe.html
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