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"Polish Walmart" selling laptops with OpenOffice.org pre-installed
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| I just received a link to this Polish offer. A Polish store similar to
| Walmart is selling a laptop with Kubuntu and OpenOffice.org pre-installed.
| Cool! I guess this means even more OpenOffice.org and ODF users!
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http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/polish_walmart_selling_laptops_with
Biedronka offers low cost Kubuntu based laptop
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| In terms of hardware, the laptop sports the following characteristics.
| -Processor Intel Celeron M550 2 Ghz
| -RAM: 512 DDR2
| -Screen: 13', 1280x800
| -HD: 80 GB SATA
| -4 USB ports
| -10/100 LAN card
| -CD-R / DVD combo
|
| OS and applications:
| -Linux Kubuntu (8.04, eventually).
| -OpenOffice 2.3
| -Firefox 2
| -Kadu (gadu-gadu client; it's the most popular IM network in Poland)
| -GIMP 2.4.5
|
| PRICE: 999 PLN (296 EUR)
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http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/27370
Recent:
OOXML ISO aftermath in Poland
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| Tomasz Bednarski (Mandriva Poland) wrote a letter to PKN president, Tomasz
| Schweitzer, in which he expressed his concerns about the Polish OOXML
| ratification process which Bednarski took part of, as a member of the
| technical committee 182. We publish the translation of his letter and the
| response from Schweitzer.
|
| [...]
|
| So, it seems that the OOXML saga in Poland is far from over and there will be
| more proceedings in the nearest future, which we will pass to you as soon as
| we hear about them. Thank you for now.
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http://polishlinux.org/poland/ooxml-iso-aftermath-in-poland/
Private deal to approve OOXML? More evidence surfaces
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| Circumstantial evidence is mounting of one or more private deals having been
| struck to approve DIS-29500 Office Open XML ("OOXML") as an international
| standard, a deal that may have played a role in several key national
| standardization bodies changing their voting position to approve OOXML.
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http://www.universal-interop-council.org/node/29
Related:
Polish chairwoman distributes Microsoft propaganda
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| The Chairwoman of the polish Technical Committee has distributed
| documentation about the BRM authored by Microsoft. She has also changed the
| voting rules for the email ballot to "If you don't vote, it is counted as a
| YES", and she has threatened to sue committee members if they spread
| accusations. What a nice broken chairwoman they have in Poland.
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-49455/polish-chairwoman-distributes-microsoft-propaganda
"Abstain from voting"
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| Evil! "Abstain from voting" means no new vote will get submitted, so the
| September vote will be carried! In the case of Poland it was an approval vote
| for the OOOXML standard with comments attached. Yes, Poland felt it could
| support the approval of a standard candidate that got more than 2300 pages of
| dispositions of comments. And now the logic I fail to get is: if we fail to
| approve we do nothing and carry the previous approval vote. ISO procudures
| sometimes feel like a witch test.
|
| "Abstain from voting" != submission of an "Abstain" vote.
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-48992/abstain-from-voting
Possible manipulation around OOXML process in Poland
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| Just to remind you, on Thursday’s meeting 12 members voted for OOXML, 10
| members voted against it and 2 abstained from voting. As the consensus has
| not been achieved, Andrukiewicz decided that the voting should continue by
| e-mail and all the missing members should be allowed to vote. What she did
| not mention is that if the missing members fail to send her an e-mail with
| their stance, it will be automatically assumed they vote yes. This is one of
| the crazy rules of PKN process of opinioning new ISO standards.
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http://polishlinux.org/poland/possible-manipulation-around-ooxml-process-in-poland/
Poland Fails to Approve OOXML; Chairman Decides Members Can Vote by Email 10
More Days - huh?
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| This is different. There is a report by Borys Musielak of PolishLinux.org
| that Poland met to vote on OOXML on Thursday. Of 45 members of the committee
| eligible to vote, 24 showed up to vote, and it split almost down the middle,
| with 12 for, 10 against and 2 abstaining. This is extraordinary, since Poland
| voted yes in September, despite the technical committee being opposed. I call
| that progress.
|
| But here is the worrying part: when it became clear that there was no
| consensus, and it was not going to be a Yes vote, the chairman "decided to
| allow the missing members to vote by e-mail during the next 10 days".
|
| What to make of a process that keeps reinventing itself as it goes along?
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080322203811784
No consensus over OOXML in Poland, yet
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| Last Thursday PKN (Polish Normalization Committee) had a meeting on which it
| was supposed to come up with the decision concerning Polish recommendation
| for ISO/IEC DIS 29500 (OOXML) proposed standard. The common stance has not
| been acheived.
|
| [...]
|
| Yes, we do know a few more details concerning the process and the type of
| dirty politics that took place just before and during the meeting, but we are
| not going to releal it just yet, hoping that the chairman of KT 182 and the
| PKN itself makes a proper decision in the end (which is to abstain from
| voting as there has been no consensus about OOXML in KT).
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http://polishlinux.org/poland/no-consensus-over-ooxml-in-poland-yet/
Shenanigans Alleged on Road to OOXML Vote
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| The events leading up to the ISO's decision on OOXML can best be described as
| strange.
|
| Take the case of KT 182, the Polish technical committee responsible for the
| OOXML standardization process, as described on Groklaw: Chairperson Elzbieta
| Andrukiewicz was instructed that KT 182 should abstain from voting if a
| consensus was not achieved. Well, it wasn't, and she said the members who
| were absent could vote by e-mail E-Mail Marketing Software - Free Trial.
| Click Here. -- but if they didn't vote, she'd take their non-response as a
| yes.
|
| Later, when presenting the results of the ballot resolution, she showed a
| slide that claimed 98 percent of the OOXML issues had been resolved during
| the KT 182 meeting.
|
| When reminded this wasn't true, and told that the author of the PowerPoint
| file was Paul Pesch, platform strategy manager at Microsoft Netherlands, she
| threatened to sue anyone who repeated the assertion that Pesch was the
| author.
|
| That slide had been shown at another meeting, and one of the Brazilian
| delegates had complained about it.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/62400.html
ODF Alliance Hails Brazil, India, Italy, and Poland for Recognizing
OpenDocument Format
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| The OpenDocument Format Alliance (ODF Alliance), a broad
| cross-section of organizations, academia and industry dedicated
| to improving access to electronic government documents, today
| applauded Brazil's decision to recommend ODF as the government's
| preferred format; India's decision to use ODF at a major state
| government agency; and Italy's decision to recognize ODF as
| national standard.
|
| The Alliance also recognized Poland, too, for demonstrating serious
| interest in adopting ODF in the wake of a national meeting held for
| its government with broad participants from industry and non-profit
| agencies.
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http://www5.sys-con.com/read/306120_p.htm
Poland against OOXML?
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| Polish Technical Committee no 171 has just voted 80% against the adoption
| OOXML as an ISO standard [PL].
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http://polishlinux.org/poland/poland-against-ooxml/
Polish National Interoperability Framework promotes Open Standards
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| This basically means that Microsoft’s Office Open XML will not be
| treated as open standard, thus not preferred in Polish e-Government
| services, making OpenDocument Format the office standard of choice.
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http://polishlinux.org/gnu/polish-national-interoperability-framework-promotes-open-standards/
Poland says "Yes, with comments" to OOXML
http://sciitnews.com/news_4055.html
Poland votes yes on OOXML
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| Several protests were sent already to PKN and TC 182 on behalf of: Free and
| Open Source Foundation, TC 171 members, Google Poland, IBM Poland, but I
| really doubt they will make the difference in Polish vote among ISO. The
| whole process was planned to the last minute so that there is not enough time
| to protest or make any changes. Although it is not as clear situation of
| vote-buying as in Sweden, it strikes me as something from typical Microsoft
| lobbying portfolio.
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http://wanted.eu.org/en/computers/microsoft/poland_votes_yes_on_ooxml
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