NZOSS Analysis of Ecma OOXML Responses
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| As you can see from the attached document, in the lead up to the BRM Ecma
| offered improvements to only 13 of the 54 SNZ comments. Out of these
| 13 "improvements" we found only one that really did address the fundamental
| issue. That's right, Ecma "fixed" 1 comment out of 54.
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http://nzoss.org.nz/news/2008/nzoss-analysis-ecma-ooxml-responses
This is an important thing to have documented. Microsoft continues to abuse and
abuse and cheat...
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Open XML proposal gets thumbs-down
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| “After considerable discussion and input from key New Zealand stakeholders, a
| large number of whom opposed publication of the document as an international
| Standard in its current form, the Standards Council have concluded that the
| best vote for New Zealand is ‘no’,” says Grant Thomas, chief operating
| officer at Standards New Zealand.
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http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/08A7B165747139B1CC25734700070796
Open Source Society warns of Open XML patent threat
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| But Christie says alarm bells are going off in many parts of the world over
| Open XML. He says many aspects of the format remain proprietary and because
| of this the process behind its development has not been robust.
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| He says the Open Document Format standard went through three years of public
| standardisation before being submitted to the International Standards
| Organisation, while Open XML was rushed out at "an unprecedented pace".
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| The areas where interoperability breaks down are where the detail is
| just not there, Christie says, either because of haste or to protect
| proprietary methods. Add the issue of portability across platforms, he says,
| and OOXML fails to deliver two of the three hallmarks of a good standard.
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http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/tech/3CA53767B17F2736CC257338001C62AD
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