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[News] The Register Writes About Microsoft's 'Open' XML Corruptions

  • Subject: [News] The Register Writes About Microsoft's 'Open' XML Corruptions
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 06:49:06 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Open Office standards row heats up

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| Microsoft's partners in Sweden, for example, were given "marketing 
| incentives" in return for paying to join the national standards body. 
| This "ballot stuffing" ploy, which Redmond claimed was down to the actions of 
| one over zealous worker rather than company policy, backfired after Sweden 
| invalidated its vote because of voting iregularaties after it was discovered 
| someone had been allowed to vote twice.     
| 
| The draft specification was amended in light of criticisms and will now be 
| resubmitted for a further standards vote. Groklaw has published an 
| informative article that highlights concerns about Redmond's possible 
| influence on the February vote, worries about the lack of discussion over 
| patent issues or public accountability, and a run-down on the more colourful 
| incidents in the on-going saga.     
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/19/ooxml_standards_row_latest/

On the other hand, Sun has its frictions as well (no briberies involved
though).

Apache, Sun still in disHarmony

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| The Apache Harmony project, serving as an Apache-branded open-source version 
| of Java, is moving forward, but a disagreement remains with Sun over 
| compliance testing.  
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1854490289&rid=-50


Related:

What Will and Won't Be Discussed at February's BRM on MSOOXML

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| So if you had concerns about Microsoft's patent policy, forgeddaboudit. 
| It's been magically erased, and any comments are out of order.
| 
| [...]
| 
| They have chosen a room that can seat only 120 people for reasons unknown, so 
| there may not be room for all the delegates. Let me guess. The head of the  
| delegation is a Microsoft guy, and the ones who can't fit in the room are the 
| ones who have issues with the proposed format? You think? Hey, some of us 
| remember the games that were played already over rooms too small for IBM and 
| Sun.    
| 
| This is starting to look really, really bad. At a minimum, you have to say 
| this is the very opposite of an open process. I can't help but notice too 
| that Brown lists Rick Jelliffe's as one of the "cool blogs" he recommends on 
| Brown's blog. I think that is what novelists would call foreshadowing.   
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20071211055139790


Portugal will send Microsoft to the BRM

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| Microsoft, as president of the Portuguese Technical Committee, is already 
| controlling who will be at the BRM for Portugal. The Head of Delegation will 
| be... Microsoft!  
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-27501/portugal-will-send-microsoft-to-the-brm


IBM is still locked out of the Portuguese OOXML meeting

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| In spite of various communications, we [IBM] are still locked out and will 
| not be allowed to participate. Microsoft will be there, as well as a special 
| Microsoft guest, as will various Microsoft business partners, and others.  
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http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=1755


Microsoft's Stephen McGibbon to represent Ireland at the BRM?

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| There are rumors circulating in Ireland that Microsoft's Stephen McGibbon 
| might be part of the Irish delegation to attend the BRM in Geneva. Microsoft 
| is already controlling the Portuguese delegation, you can expect that they 
| will control half of the table at Geneva. O'MyGod!   
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-29606/microsoft-s-stephen-mcgibbon-to-represent-ireland-at-the-brm


Opinion: Einstein's definition of insanity...

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| But ISO standards have a much more political dimension to them than Internet 
| (IETF) or World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards. Every country can vote,  
| although not all chose to do so. Over the past few weeks, some strange and 
| rather irregular national positions have come to light. My favourites were 
| Cuba voting "Yes" to the fast-tracking of OOXML, even though Microsoft is 
| prohibited by the US Government from selling any software on the island that 
| might even be able to read and write the new format, and Azerbaijan's "Yes" 
| vote, even though OOXML as defined isn't able to express a Web URL address in 
| Azeri, their official language.       
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http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=632


Whither OOXML?

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| Strangely, however, Microsoft appears to be soft-pedaling its own standard. 
| At GOSCON last week there was a panel on document formats, with reps from 
| IBM, Sun, Adobe, and Microsoft present. Each of the company representatives 
| got to speak for five minutes and present his company's perspective on 
| document formats.    
| 
| In his presentation, Matusow appeared to be backing away from OOXML as a key 
| technology. If you look at the slide he presented... 
| 
| ...you can see that the positioning now is that the tool is key, and the 
| document format secondary, which, to my mind, is a bizarre assertion, 
| although it's one that aligns with a positioning that, above all, must keep 
| Microsoft's tools in a predominate position.   
| 
| It appears to me that, having realized that the force-feeding of OOXML into 
| an international standards body is problematic, Microsoft is now trying to 
| present a soft TCO story which emphasizes sunk costs and pre-existing product 
| versions as a reason to stay on the Microsoft path, along with an 
| incomprehensible assertion that two document standards would be a good thing 
| (this last is the most oddball position of all; how can anyone state with a 
| straight face that the world would be well-served by having two incompatible 
| editable file formats?).        
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http://advice.cio.com/bernard_golden/wither_ooxml


Microsoft Loses, Spins Open XML Vote

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| ISO issued a statement that makes plain what Microsoft tried to spin as a 
| victory.  
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2178917,00.asp


Microsoft FUD Watch: OOXML Edition

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| Apparently, there is more than one way to stuff the ballot box.
| 
| In all my years working as a journalist, I've never seen any technology 
| company spin information the way Microsoft did today. The press release on 
| OOXML ratification is a blueprint for spinning semantics, and the stringing 
| together of truths and half-truths to seemingly make the outcome of one event 
| something else altogether.     
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/business_applications/microsoft_fud_watch_ooxml_edition.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535


Microsoft spins OOXML loss as a win

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| Microsoft lost its effort to win “fast track” approval of its OOXML (which it 
| calls Open XML)  as an international standard, but you wouldn’t know that 
| from reading much of the press coverage.  
| 
|     * Microsoft claims global support for Open XML.
|     * Microsoft reports victory in preliminary ISO ballot.
|     * Microsoft takes big step toward OOXML approval.
|     * Microsoft is seen winning an international standard vote.   
|     * Strong global support for Open XML.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1382


Lord, what fools these mortals be!

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| No kidding. Microsoft continues to steam-roll the competition, as illustrated 
| by its latest attempt to ram acceptance of OOXML through ISO by the blatantly 
| rigging the vote. And of course the European's really love Microsoft's 
| business practices. Not. No, Microsoft has the DoJ in their hip pocket thanks 
| to the "pro-business" stance of the Bush administration, and as long as 
| Bushites remain in power and the Democrats remain inept and impotent, it's 
| going to stay that way. Which leaves those of use who really believe in a 
| free and fair market to fend for ourselves.       
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http://blogbeebe.blogspot.com/2007/09/lord-what-fools-these-mortals-be.html

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