Australia stalls OOXML vote as NZ scratches head
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| With the countdown on to the International Organization for Standardization
| (ISO) ballot on OOXML, Australia and New Zealand's representatives are
| keeping their cards close to their chests on which way they will vote.
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Australia-stalls-OOXML-vote-as-NZ-scratches-head/0,130061733,339286594,00.htm
Interoperability woes with MS-OOXML
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| The proposed MS-OOXML/DIS29500 specification raises serious technical and
| legal concerns. This context briefing highlights three examples of how the
| proposed specification and its practical implementation in MS Office 2007
| hinders interoperability, fosters vendor dependence and results in market
| distortion.
|
| It does not alleviate concerns that at the ISO Ballot Resolution Meeting for
| the proposed specification more than 1,000 technical concerns and proposed
| dispositions required discussion. Participants were only able to discuss
| between 20 to 30 dispositions and to accept approximately 200 minor editorial
| corrections in the allocated time. Around 900 dispositions were not
| discussed.
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http://fsfeurope.org/documents/msooxml-interoperability
OOXML: Why the debate?
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| OOXML–despite its complexity–is not currently well-defined enough to be fully
| implementable. It would take a great deal of time to resolve all of the
| issues that have been identified, and the current ballot resolution process
| simply does not provide enough time to fix these issues and create a truly
| open standard that all vendors can implement.
|
| Next week we will look at the ISO certification process and how Red Hat has
| been participating in the discussion.
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http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2008/03/06/ooxml-why-the-debate/
Recent:
Standards Australia denies OOXML bias
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| Representatives from IBM, Google, Catalyst IT and Waugh Partners expressed
| their concern the appointment of Topologi director Rick Jelliffe to the
| delegation was not indicative of the wider industry view on OOXML
| standardization.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1735452258&rid=-50
The OOXML BRM and Australia: What happens next
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| Senior project manager at Standards Australia, Panjan Navaratnam, will head
| the delegation and shoulder the responsibility for all Australian positions.
| He will be supported in an advisory role by technical expert Rick Jeliffe.
|
| Despite some concerns surrounding the objectivity of Jeliffe, Standards
| Australia insists that its delegates are not participating as an agent of any
| personal or organisational viewpoint.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1392366014&rid=-50
Standards Australia defends Jelliffe he has never developed Microsoft products
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| Look at this press release from Standards Australia, it is really funny how
| they carefully weight their words:
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| The article also incorrectly describes Rick Jelliffe as a ‘Microsoft
| developer’. While Mr Jelliffe consults widely to industry and government
| including Microsoft, he has never developed Microsoft products.
|
| Let's rewrite it like this to see if it changes something:
|
| Rick Jelliffe is not a ‘Microsoft developer’ as such. While Mr Jelliffe
| is being paid for consultancy work by Microsoft, he is not developing
| Microsoft products.
|
| Where is the money?
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-42872/standards-australia-defends-jelliffe:he-has-never-developed-microsoft-products
Microsoft developer joins Aussie OOXML standards delegation
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| Last year Jelliffe was implicated in editing OOXML Wikipedia entries at the
| request of Microsoft. A public explanation is available on Jelliffe's blog.
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http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;445400562;fp;16;fpid;1
How to Get Your Platform Accepted as a Standard - Microsoft Style
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| In the section of an internal manual on effective evangelism, written in 1997
| by James Plamondon, Technical Evangelist, he lays out an elaborate series of
| steps to get Microsoft's platforms accepted as de facto standards. Among the
| steps lists are working behind the scenes with supposedly independent but
| actually pliable and supportive analysts and consultants.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20071023002351958
Related:
EU Initiates Investigation Against Microsoft OOXML Push
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| But with Steve Ballmer taking over as CEO, there was supposed to be a kinder,
| gentler Microsoft - one that would play nicely with its competitors. When
| antitrust regulators in turn challenged this new Microsoft, it issued not
| challenges to fight to the end to prove that it had done nothing illegal, but
| statements promising to "cooperate fully."
|
| But at the same time, Microsoft is still a tough competitor. As Microsoft's
| Director of Corporate Standards Jason Matusow famously warned at his blog
| last year:
|
| Make no mistake; all parties are looking at the full picture to find
| strategies that will result in the outcome they desire. Provided - of
| course - that they do so within the context of the rules that apply to
| the process, this is exactly what one should expect to happen. It is
| going to be a very interesting next few months.
|
| Indeed, the months that followed proved to be interesting indeed. Microsoft
| said that some of its employees became over zealous, most flagrantly in
| Sweden, where marketing assists were promised to several business partners as
| incentives to join the national standards committee and vote for OOXM.
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http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20080208082501776
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
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