IBM Joins OpenOffice.org Community
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| The OpenOffice.org community today announced that IBM will be joining the
| community to collaborate on the development of OpenOffice.org software. IBM
| will be making initial code contributions that it has been developing as part
| of its Lotus Notes product, including accessibility enhancements, and will be
| making ongoing contributions to the feature richness and code quality of
| OpenOffice.org.
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http://www.prweb.com/releases/openoffice.org/IBM/prweb552157.htm
About the proprietary formats and corruption:
OOXML - what just happened?
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| Already some curious pieces of wrong information are beginning to appear
| about the process of this meeting, which is governed by the published JTC 1
| Directives. Sure, these Directives leave some room for interpretation (which
| will appear in the coming weeks and months), but the framework of the meeting
| is already clearly set out ...
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http://www.adjb.net/index.php?entry=entry070906-201933
The ISO seems to have internal weaknesses as well. It's not just Microsoft's
briberies around the world.
Related:
Norbert Bollow starts OpenISO
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| What do engineers do when they observe a problem? They start a project to fix
| it. A Swiss standard expert who got annoyed by the "Open XML bug" of ISO
| procedures launched OpenISO.org.
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-18681/norbert-bollow-starts-openiso
An Open Letter to ISO
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| Norway - originally a process decided by unanimity but altered on the fly
| Sweden - voting seats bought and the result thus hijacked
| Switzerland - process rigged in favor of the vendor, the chairman excluded
| the option of voting “reject” or “reject, with comments”
| Portugal - process skewed by blaming on lack of available chairs
| Malaysia - two committees voted unanimously “rejection with comments” and
| mysteriously overturned by the government to “abstain”
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http://blogs.freecode.no/isene/2007/09/07/an-open-letter-to-iso/
3.2 billion people voted NO against OOXML
http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-18692/3-2-billion-people-voted-no-against-ooxml
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.
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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.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=42106
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