____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 04 March 2008 09:35 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Some clarifications on the OOXML Ballot Resolution Meeting
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| The contrast with OOXML is sharp, and this brings us to another issue of
>>| contention. The Greek workgroup on OOXML had been handed only the Ecma
>>| Responses for Greece. It was at the BRM when we found out that we should
>>| have studied all responses, not only those for Greece. It is not clear if
>>| this is an error by Ecma or by the Greek NB, but, in both cases, we did not
>>| have the time to study one thousand responses, so there would have been no
>>| difference. In fact, even the 80 responses that Greece studied, we did not
>>| study at the level of scrutiny that is required when you inspect a
>>| standard. There was no time for that. What we did was glance through, and
>>| make fast decisions based on what seems right at a quick glance.
>> `----
>>
>> http://elot.ece.ntua.gr/te48/ooxml/brm-clarifications
>
> I know that standardisation is a public service, but I think in a case
> like this, where a single company is quite clearly pushing their own
> agenda, knowingly against an existing standard which we've already paid
> for (ODF), then that company should have to pay for the work involved.
>
> Currently, we have delegates from companies and governments all over the
> world, the cost must be in the millions, with the singular purpose of
> pushing through a clearly immature specification into an environment
> where there is already a superior one.
>
> This is a abuse of the system, and a very expensive one. It seems to be
> akin to the legal viewpoint around "contempt of court". This appears to
> be "contempt of ISO" and should be handled in a similar way.
Europe will probably have Microsoft fine for this, but it might take time for
ISO to recover (ECMA is already ruined). Bush, as usual, doesn't give a
damn... "is OXML like teh google on the internets?"
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