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[News] [Rival] More on OOXML Scandals; Lies & Abuse of Standards Bodies by Monopolists

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] More on OOXML Scandals; Lies & Abuse of Standards Bodies by Monopolists
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:15:07 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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Freaky Format

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| Alex Brown's little test report was must read for me but I did not found it 
| really newsworthy. Alex Brown, convener of the BRM, validated existing 
| Microsoft 2007 files against the OOXML schema and generated 200 000(hu!) 
| invalidity messages. His objective, despite curiosity, may have been to show 
| how much the ISO process changed the format.    
| 
| Why did I ignore the story? Because it was known to us that ECMA OOXML was 
| not identical with the Microsoft 2007 format which comprises "tags not found 
| in the spec", a viral phrase. Or OOXML burnout? Or because you lose respect 
| for an impartial BRM chairman who consults the British Library and supports 
| OOXML?    
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-55332/freaky-format

DC Circuit Ct of Appeals: Deceit Doesn't in Itself Constitute Monopolization

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| I hope this gets appealed. To hear a court uphold deceit as a concept is... 
| disturbing. And I'm sure you can imagine the damage that will ensue if this 
| stands. There are sufficient threats to the integrity of the standards 
| process already, without endorsing deceit by monopolists. The damage that 
| flows from allowing software patents to issue continues to mount. And then 
| there is the idea of patents on a standard.      
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080423082101546


Recent:

BE, NL: governments will not use ISO OOXML

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| Asked to comment on last week's ISO approval for OOXML, Fedict's chief IT 
| architect, Peter Strickx, said: "There will have to be multiple 
| implementations, in order for us not to become dependent on a single vendor. 
| It will also have to be compatible with open standards that we already use, 
| in this case Open Document Format ODF."    
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http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7562


DE: German Foreign Ministry will not use ISO OOXML

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| In the weeks prior to the second round of votes last September, 
| irregularities were reported in the standard committees in many participating 
| countries. These claims  continued until after the final discussion, in 
| February and March this year.   
| 
| The European Commission has started an investigation into the allegations. 
| The Commission sent a letter to all EU national standards committees in 
| Europe, requesting information about the process. Sources at the Commission 
| declined to comment, as the investigation is on-going and no official 
| position has yet been adopted.    
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http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7561


Recent:

Software wars

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| Allegations of committee-stuffing, the outcome of votes overridden by 
| political appointees, a final decision that many involved consider tainted: 
| this may sound like a discredited election in some third world country. But 
| it is actually a description of an ugly fight over international technical 
| standards that wrapped up this week. Microsoft came out on top, but at the 
| cost of tarnishing its reputation and the credibility of an important 
| back-room process that oils the wheels of many global industries.      
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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/c9743360-01a8-11dd-a323-000077b07658,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F0%2Fc9743360-01a8-11dd-a323-000077b07658.html%3Fnclick_check%3D1&_i_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.computerworlduk.com%2Ftool


Microsoft Plummets, Retail Falls While Beauty Gains in CoreBrand 2007 Brand
Power Rankings

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| The annual "CoreBrand Brand Power 100" Branding Index(R) of 1,200 US 
| corporations ranks Coca-Cola Company and Johnson & Johnson at #1 and #2 
| respectively, unchanged since 2004. Meanwhile, Microsoft's corporate brand 
| declined in stunning fashion over the past four years, falling from 11 in 
| 2004 to 59 in 2007 Microsoft, a decline of 48 places!    
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http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=834308


Related:

Martin Bryan: we are getting “standardization by corporation”

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| A November informative report of Martin Bryan, Convenor, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34 
| WG1 highlights the fallout of the ECMA-376 fast-track process for ISO. He 
| says he is 'glad to be retiring before the situation becomes impossible'  
| 
| [...]
| 
| In what is an astonishingly outspoken report, Martin Bryan, Convenor, ISO/IEC 
| JTC1/SC34 WG1 has given us insight into the total mess that Microsoft/ECMA 
| have caused during their scandalous, underhand and unremitting attempts to 
| get - what is a very poorly written specification {i.e. DIS 29500 aka OOXML, 
| AR} - approved as an ISO standard. …    
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-30107/martin-bryan:we-are-getting-standardization-by-corporation


Dysfunctional ISO - Courtesy of Microsoft

http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2007/12/dysfunctional-iso-courtesy-of-microsoft.html


Microsoft accused of stacking ISO committee

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| In a memo sent following his last meeting as head of the working group on 
| WG1, which is handling Microsoft’s application to make the Word format an ISO 
| standard as ECMA 376, outgoing Governor Martin Bryan (above), an expert on 
| SGML and XML, accused the company of stacking his group.   
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1777


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

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