Microsoft’s Open XML letter
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| Over the weekend, Microsoft published another public effort to show "hey,
| we're the good guys" on their efforts to take a heavily modified version of
| the Office 2007 document formats and get it rubber-stamped as an
| international standard. Oddly, the open letter from Chris Capossela asserts
| that IBM is on the MS bandwagon
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| [...]
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| IBM doesn't support ecma Open XML. But who ever expects MS to be clear
| communicators?
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http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/microsofts-open-xml-letter
Let’s be clear: The Apache Software Foundation does NOT support OOXML.
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| Microsoft’s oversight of IBM’s denials is clearly not accidental. It is part
| of a well crafted and continuous disingenuous plan to convince NBs at all
| cost. There is already so much evidence of Microsoft going far beyond what
| most would consider normal lobbying behavior it is sickening. For one, I’m
| not ready to forget the case of the NGOs in India. Talk about dirty
| practices.
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| But what really is at the bottom of Microsoft’s claims is that basically any
| software that handles XML supports OOXML.
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http://lehors.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/lets-be-clear-the-apache-software-foundation-does-not-support-ooxml/
OOXML has been one of the greatest Microsoft frauds in recent years, but the
company must be spending millions -- maybe almost billions -- to hide it and
rewrite history (or bribe some more people).
Related:
Final vote at the brm - catastropic failure at BRM
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| Unrecoverable Application Error or UAE or BSOD to the nonsense ooxml stuff.
| So, some of the stuff was hand-waved through. But the end is here. We have to
| expose all the underhanded, manipulations that MS has done everywhere to buy
| votes. I am glad that the EU is investigating.
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http://harishpillay.livejournal.com/
Appeals Court Rules that Deceptive Conduct in Standard Setting can Violate
Antitrust Laws
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| While many of us have been preoccupied with the OOXML vote, the rest of the
| world has naturally been continuing to go about its business. One piece of
| business that took an interesting turn in the last few days is a ruling by a
| Federal Appellate Court in the United States that breaks new ground in
| protecting the integrity of the standard setting system. The ruling may also
| have relevance to the regrettable conduct witnessed in the recent OOXML vote.
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http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=2007090607324049
Danish Unix User Group Files Complaint With EU Commission Against Denmark For
Mandating MSOOXML
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| The Danish Unix User Group, DKUUG, has filed a formal complaint with the EU
| Commission regarding Denmark's mandating ECMA 376, better known by us as
| MSOOXML, for certain procurements.
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| The complaint [PDF] is grounded in breach of the EC Treaty article 81 on
| unfair competition. The press release says that the regulation "can be seen
| as an attempt to continue the de facto monopoly of Microsoft in the Danish
| state on office software, as the various public agencies and institutions
| need to buy the products of Microsoft to comply to the regulation."
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080226164131724
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| Pieter Hintjens, president of the Foundation for a Free Information
| Infrastructure, a non-profit organisation that is campaigning against the
| Microsoft proposal, said: "We've recorded fairly systematic manipulation of
| the voting process. We've seen what amounts to vote-buying in Italy,
| Portugal, Colombia, Spain. In Sweden and Denmark, much the same happened –
| Microsoft paying their business partners to join the vote."
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http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarticle.aspx?feed=FT&Date=20070830&ID=7401878
Corrupt countries were more likely to support the OOXML document format
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| Is this just a random coincidence? The median of the CPI index of the above
| mentioned 70 countries is 3.95. Of the most corrupted half (CPI index less
| than 3.95) 23 or 77% voted for approval (approval or approval with comments)
| and 7 or 23% for disapproval; 5 abstained. Of the least corrupted half (CPI
| index more than 3.95) 13 or 54% voted for approval and 11 or 46% voted for
| disapproval; 11 abstained - see the table below.
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http://www.effi.org/blog/kai-2007-09-05.en.html
Microsoft accused of more OOXML standards fiddling
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| However the 11 new countries are refusing to say how they will vote. These
| include Cote d'Ivoire, Cyprus, Ecuador, Jamaica, Lebanon, Malta, Pakistan,
| Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Uruguay and Venezuela. Most people seem to think
| that these have been put there by Vole to make sure the standard gets pushed
| through.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=42106
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