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[News] [Rival] Microsoft's OOXML Crimes Around Europe, 2007-08

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] Microsoft's OOXML Crimes Around Europe, 2007-08
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 05:24:18 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Freelance
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Norway asks to suspend its 'Yes' vote on OOXML

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| Some members of the Norwegian committee that participated in the 
| International Organization for Standardization's Office Open XML vote are 
| calling on Norway's Ministry of Trade and Industry to suspend the 
| country's "yes" vote pending an investigation, according to a letter to the 
| ISO from the Norwegian committee's chairman.     
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=124372770&rid=-50

Watch this new bit about Denmark:

Bill Gates takes the phone to lobby Mexico

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| Rumors are running that he also lobbied Denmark, where it is well known that 
| he is a friend of the Prime Minister. 
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-50275/bill-gates-takes-the-phone-to-lobby-mexico

Poland confirms its approval for OOXML in ISO

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|     * 24 members voted to approve (7 of them without even knowing that, since 
|       no vote was counted as a vote to approve), 
|     * 13 members voted against approving the standard (a ‘NO’ vote),
|     * 4 remaining members decided that Poland should abstain from voting.
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http://polishlinux.org/poland/poland-confirms-its-approval-for-ooxml-in-iso/

In brief here:

Poland: You don't vote, so you vote in favour of the standard

http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-50291/poland:you-don-t-vote-so-you-vote-in-favour-of-the-standard

"I’m thinking of hitting the OEMs harder than in the past with anti-Linux. ...
they should do a delicate dance"

                --Joachim Kempin, Microsoft OEM Chief

For those who say Linux success has nothing to do with Microsoft, this is a
must-read. For those who say that there's a fight against proprietary
software, well... it's often a fight against corruption too... and it proves
that certain things like lock-in or Microsoft are innately evil, beyond
repair.


Related:

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.  When 
| 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."    
| 
| But at the same time, Microsoft is still a tough competitor.  As Microsoft's 
| Director of Corporate Standards Jason Matusow famously warned at his blog 
| last year:  
| 
|     Make no mistake; all parties are looking at the full picture to find 
|     strategies that will result in the outcome they desire. Provided - of 
|     course - that they do so within the context of the rules that apply to 
|     the process, this is exactly what one should expect to happen. It is 
|     going to be a very interesting next few months.    
| 
| Indeed, the months that followed proved to be interesting indeed.  Microsoft 
| 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.   
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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.  
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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.      
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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



OOXML News From Denmark

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| It appears that pressure was put on partners there as well, although 
| Microsoft denies that was the intent. 
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070831002558681


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| Re: In Denmark, Microsoft has 2 out of 4 votes
| 
| InzpektorInzpektor 18 Feb 2008, 15:20 BST
| 
| The Danish delegation for the BRM will consist of:
| 
|     * IBM
|     * Dansk Standard (the national standards body)
|     * Microsoft - Themselves!
|     * Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Ciber A/S
| 
| So, I guess that means that the Danish votes are a tie. (Ofcourse with the 
| national standards body being the joker here :-) ) 
| 
| Reference:
| http://www.ds.dk/3537 (In Danish)
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-41947/microsoft-s-wikipedia-editor-goes-to-the-brm-to-represent-australia


The Microsoft OOXML ‘Corruption Train’ Reaches Denmark

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| A committee from Danish Standardisation is going to decide whether to 
| recommend a Microsoft standard as an open standard internationally. A 
| majority in the committee have close connections to Microsoft, however….17 
| out of the 31 members in the committee are so called Microsoft partners….The 
| European interest organisation Foundation for a Free Information 
| Infrastructure accuses Microsoft of influencing the decision process by 
| asking partners to join the national decision committee.      
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http://boycottnovell.com/2007/07/27/denmark-ooxml/

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