War rages on over Microsoft's OOXML plans
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| "OOXML is philosophically a problem," says StandardsNZ's Jackson. "The world
| already had a standard [in ODF]."
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| "There has been insufficient technical rationale as to why we need another
| standard," added open source advocate Jeff Waugh.
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/insight/software/soa/War-rages-on-over-Microsoft-s-OOXML-plans/0,139023769,339284737,00.htm
Related:
Evidence of Microsoft Influencing OOXML Votes in Nordic States
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| "This is how a standard is bought," Bosson wrote later. "I left the meeting
| in protest - pissed off."
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http://www.betanews.com/article/Evidence_of_Microsoft_Influencing_OOXML_Votes_in_Nordic_States/1188335569
Microsoft Memo to Partners in Sweden Surfaces: Vote Yes for OOXML - Updated
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| He acknowledges that the rules might need to be changed.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070829070630660
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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