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Venezuela Joins Line Appealing OOXML Standard Approval
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| Venezuela has joined the list of countries that have lodged appeals against
| the adoption of an international standard based on Microsoft's Office Open
| XML (OOXML) file format.
|
| [...]
|
| By Monday, though, the IEC had relaxed its interpretation of the directive:
| Venezuela's appeal, although filed after May 29, "was filed within the two
| months of the BRM [ballot resolution meeting] closing so that it is being
| accepted. (The BRM closed on 29 March 2008 so the interpretation is that the
| last calendar day of May is being applied)," Buck wrote in an e-mail.
|
| [...]
|
| Computerworld Denmark reported Friday that Denmark filed an appeal with the
| ISO, although spokesmen at the IEC and ISO would not confirm that.
|
| "I have no confirmation of the Danish report and cannot comment further on
| that," the IEC's Buck said Monday.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/146558/venezuela_joins_line_appealing_ooxml_standard_approval.html
Well, that's where corruption gets you. Microsoft went too far.
Venezuela and India appeal OOXML ratification
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| Jesper Jerlang, the director of standardisation for Dansk Standard, the
| official Danish national standards body, told ZDNet.co.uk on Monday that
| Dansk Standard "did not agree" that processes had not been followed in the
| Danish OOXML voting process.
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http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39427754,00.htm
So Microsoft also ruined confidence in national bodies (in some cases
governments too, e.g. Poland, France).
The State of OOXML - Brazil Joins South Africa and India Against OOXML
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| The chief executives of the two international bodies involved, the
| International Organization for Standardization and the International
| Electrotechnical Commission, will take a month to try to work out the
| complaints with the individual nations’ standards bodies. If the complaints
| cannot be worked out, wider committees of the two international bodies will
| take up the issues.
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http://blog.linuxoss.com/2008/06/02/the-state-of-ooxml-brazil-joins-south-africa-and-india-against-ooxml/
OOXML revolt brewing? Three countries appeal ISO approval
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| India, Brazil, and South Africa are attempting to appeal ISO's fast-track
| approval of Microsoft's controversial Office Open XML (OOXML) format. The
| organizations representing those countries in ISO complain of process
| irregularities, lack of inclusiveness during meetings and debates, and
| insufficient time to address all of the issues and concerns raised by
| participants during the review process.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080531-ooxml-revolt-brewing-three-countries-appeal-iso-approval.html
And there's still the BSI (in court) and EU investigations. This is bound to
blow up.
Recent:
Microsoft OOXML: Dead Format Walking
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| Since most Office users would be happy to continue using Microsoft's old
| binary formats, and since those for whom open standards are important would
| probably prefer ODF or PDF formats anyhow, I won't be surprised if OOXML
| quietly dies before that future Office iteration ever sees the light of day.
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http://blogs.eweek.com/brooks/content/office/microsoft_ooxml_dead_format_walking.html
ISO Fantasy
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| What OOXML Is · The ISO process, brutal and corrupt as it was, has been
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| covered to death by everyone. Its output, soon to be known as ISO/IEC 29500,
| differs from ECMA-376 in two ways. ¶
|
| [...]
|
| What Microsoft really wanted was that ISO stamp of approval to use as a
| marketing tool. And just like your mother told you, when they get what they
| want and have their way with you, they’re probably not gonna call you in the
| morning.
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http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/04/15/OOXML
BE, NL: governments will not use ISO OOXML
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| Asked to comment on last week's ISO approval for OOXML, Fedict's chief IT
| architect, Peter Strickx, said: "There will have to be multiple
| implementations, in order for us not to become dependent on a single vendor.
| It will also have to be compatible with open standards that we already use,
| in this case Open Document Format ODF."
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http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7562
DE: German Foreign Ministry will not use ISO OOXML
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| In the weeks prior to the second round of votes last September,
| irregularities were reported in the standard committees in many participating
| countries. These claims continued until after the final discussion, in
| February and March this year.
|
| The European Commission has started an investigation into the allegations.
| The Commission sent a letter to all EU national standards committees in
| Europe, requesting information about the process. Sources at the Commission
| declined to comment, as the investigation is on-going and no official
| position has yet been adopted.
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http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7561
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
Microsoft Plummets, Retail Falls While Beauty Gains in CoreBrand 2007 Brand
Power Rankings
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| The annual "CoreBrand Brand Power 100" Branding Index(R) of 1,200 US
| corporations ranks Coca-Cola Company and Johnson & Johnson at #1 and #2
| respectively, unchanged since 2004. Meanwhile, Microsoft's corporate brand
| declined in stunning fashion over the past four years, falling from 11 in
| 2004 to 59 in 2007 Microsoft, a decline of 48 places!
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http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=834308
Related:
Martin Bryan: we are getting “standardization by corporation”
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| A November informative report of Martin Bryan, Convenor, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34
| WG1 highlights the fallout of the ECMA-376 fast-track process for ISO. He
| says he is 'glad to be retiring before the situation becomes impossible'
|
| [...]
|
| In what is an astonishingly outspoken report, Martin Bryan, Convenor, ISO/IEC
| JTC1/SC34 WG1 has given us insight into the total mess that Microsoft/ECMA
| have caused during their scandalous, underhand and unremitting attempts to
| get - what is a very poorly written specification {i.e. DIS 29500 aka OOXML,
| AR} - approved as an ISO standard. …
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-30107/martin-bryan:we-are-getting-standardization-by-corporation
Dysfunctional ISO - Courtesy of Microsoft
http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2007/12/dysfunctional-iso-courtesy-of-microsoft.html
Microsoft accused of stacking ISO committee
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| In a memo sent following his last meeting as head of the working group on
| WG1, which is handling Microsoft’s application to make the Word format an ISO
| standard as ECMA 376, outgoing Governor Martin Bryan (above), an expert on
| SGML and XML, accused the company of stacking his group.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1777
EU Commission Investigating Microsoft's MSOOXML Push
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| I hope they think to investigate the smear campaigns that seem to always
| happen to anyone on the other side from Microsoft. What happened to Peter
| Quinn was by no means unique.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080208151410252
Protest in front of Town Hall for Document Freedom
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| The protest organized by FSUG and FCI seems to have attracted a lot of
| deserved attention, despite the hurried execution.
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http://hpnadig.net/blog/Protest-for-Document-Freedom
Techies protest proprietary standards; seek policy
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| Ever since the International Standardisation Organisation (ISO) vote on April
| 2 adopted Microsoft’s Office Open XML (OOXML) as a document standard, techie
| blogs and websites have been inundated with posts and articles voicing their
| opposition to proprietary software and technical issues with the new
| standard.
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http://www.hindu.com/2008/04/15/stories/2008041554380500.htm
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