Bait and Switch
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| Promises have been made. Assurances have been given. Commitments have been
| proffered. But far less has been delivered.
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| [...]
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| So what Ecma is offering SC34 is nothing close to what was promised. Ecma is
| really seeking to transfer to SC34 the responsibility of spending the next 5
| years fixing errors in OOXML 1.0, while future versions of OOXML ("technical
| revisions") are controlled by Microsoft, in Ecma, in a process without
| transparency, and as should now be obvious to all, without sufficient quality
| controls.
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http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/12/bait-and-switch.html
Related:
Microsoft won't commit to the open document standard it's pushing so hard
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| Now consider this from Brian Jones, a Microsoft manager who has worked on
| OOXML for six years. In July, Jones was asked on his blog whether Microsoft
| would actually commit to conform to an officially standardised OOXML. His
| response:
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| ?It?s hard for Microsoft to commit to what comes out of Ecma [the European
| standards group that has already OK?d OOXML] in the coming years, because we
| don?t know what direction they will take the formats. We?ll of course stay
| active and propose changes based on where we want to go with Office 14. At
| the end of the day, though, the other Ecma members could decide to take the
| spec in a completely different direction. ... Since it?s not guaranteed, it
| would be hard for us to make any sort of official statement.?
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| Now that?s cynical. After all this work to make OOXML a formal, independent
| standard ? a standard created and promoted by Microsoft, remember ? Microsoft
| won?t agree to follow it.
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http://www.techworld.com/storage/features/index.cfm?featureid=3685&pagtype=all
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