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Norbert Bollow's Comments on Standards
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| 2009-08-12: The ISO/IEC Working Group on OOXML Wants to Unfix the Leap-Year
| Bug and Related Date-and-Time Problems.
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| [...]
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| What can be done?
| Obviously, if you're involved in your national mirror committee for ISO/IEC
| JTC1, you can seek to convince it or the relevant subcommittee that 29500-4 /
| DCOR 1 should be disapproved. The international deadline for this ballot is
| 2009-11-04; the national member bodies of ISO will generally have deadlines
| in October by when the concerned committees mus make their decisions. While
| you're at it, you'll also be able to argue for disapproval of 29500-4 / FPDAM
| 1 (for related but different reasons, I'll explain about that in one of my
| next blog postings.)
|
| If you're working for a software company and it is not yet active in the
| appropriate national standardization organization, you should probably become
| active to make sure that the emerging body of international standards in the
| field of IT isn't going to get in the way of your company's business
| interests. This recommendation for getting involved applies even if your
| company is a small one, or if software development isn't the firm's main line
| of business.
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http://adaptux.com/standards/ooxml-wg4-leap-year-bug-unfix
The i4i v. Microsoft Orders and Permanent Injunction
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20090812144154814
Judge bans Microsoft Word sales
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8197990.stm
Texas judge signs injunction to prevent sales of Microsoft Word
http://www.techflash.com/microsoft/Judge_signs_injunction_to_prevent_sales_of_Microsoft_Word_53043052.html
U.S. court bars Microsoft Word sales
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE57B38M20090812
Judge orders Microsoft to stop selling Word
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-10308013-75.html
Judge Says Microsoft Can't Sell Word in US
http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2009/08/12/judge-says-microsoft-cant-sell-word-in-us
Microsoft to appeal court ban on Word sales
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| MICROSOFT plans to appeal a ruling by a Texas judge that would ban the
| software giant from selling its popular Word program in the US.
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http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,28348,25922744-5014239,00.html
Related:
Microsoft Looks for the Big Guns in OOXML In-Fighting
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| Bill Gates has reportedly been making phone calls to the Secretary of Defense
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| and the Secretary of Commerce to push the American National Standards
| Institute to ignore the votes of its advisory committees and vote "yes" on
| ISO standardizing Microsoft's Open Office XML (OOXML) format, the one in
| competition with the OpenDocument Format (ODF) pushed by IBM and Sun. Â Â
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| Gates reportedly picked up the phone when the last INCITS ballot failed by
| one vote to support Microsoft.
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http://xml.sys-con.com/read/419573_p.htm
Using NGOs to Push Agendas
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| The extent to which Microsoft can go in its efforts to get OOXML is
| interesting. Microsoft has "persuaded" several non-profit organizations to
| bombard the Indian IT Secretary and the Additional Director General of the
| Bureau of Indian Standards with letters supporting its OOXML proposal. A copy
| of the form letter they have been circulating to NGOs is given below.
| Somebody should interview these NGOs to see how much they really know about
| OOXML and open standards. Â Â Â
|
| The sequence of events leading up to the spamming of GoI? is:
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| Letter from an NGO thanking Microsoft (name changed to protect their
| identity)
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http://wiki.linux-delhi.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/OpenStandards/MsNgoLobby
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. ÂWhen
| 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." Â Â
|
| But at the same time, Microsoft is still a tough competitor. ÂAs Microsoft's
| Director of Corporate Standards Jason Matusow famously warned at his blog
| last year: Â
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| Â Â Make no mistake; all parties are looking at the full picture to find
| Â Â strategies that will result in the outcome they desire. Provided - of
| Â Â course - that they do so within the context of the rules that apply to
| Â Â the process, this is exactly what one should expect to happen. It is
| Â Â going to be a very interesting next few months. Â Â
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| Indeed, the months that followed proved to be interesting indeed. ÂMicrosoft
| 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. Â
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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. Â
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080208151410252
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. Â Â Â
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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. Â Â
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=42106
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