Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> BRM Resolution 23: Thou Shalt Use Patent-Encumbered MP3 with OOXML
>
> ,----[ Quote
>| There are two more documents from the BRM meeting available now on Alex
>| Brown's blog:
>|
>| [...]
>|
>| If you open the zip file and look at the document titled PT-62A2.doc and put
>| it next to the Resolutions document [text], specifically Resolution 23, I
>| think you'll find that they say, put together, that any applications wishing
>| interoperability with OOXML in sound must use MP3. This is non-free, being
>| patent-encumbered. If you go to Audiopeg.com, it tells us, "Audio MPEG is
>| protected by a portfolio of patents covering a large number of countries."
>| Therefore, by my reading, the proposed spec can't be implemented in free
>| software and in a backhanded way, the GPL has just been exiled again. What
>| kind of standard is OOXML if the GPL, which is what Linux is licensed under,
>| can't freely interoperate? FOSS is a new factor that standards bodies simply
>| must consider. It's not like the old, proprietary days, when it was like a
>| club, and everybody had similar business plans.
> `----
>
> http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080310153345250
>
> Not for the first time, either (link below). ISO makes itself look like more of
> a joke every times it makes it a requirement to submit as Office files. It's a
> standards body that doesn't care about standards.
>
Um, so ISO is being pushed to implement a standard which could not be
implemented on the world's fastest growing operating system... Jurassic
Park!
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