Microsoft's OXML standard debate hots up
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| “OXML needs a thorough review before India can commit anything. Rushing
| through the 6,000 page specification through the fast track process by ISO is
| not going to help. The ODF standard was approved after six years of intensive
| study,” said Venkatesh Hariharan, co-founder Open Source Foundation of India
| and member of Knowledge Commons, a Knowledge rights group.
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http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Microsofts_OXML_standard_debate_hots_up/articleshow/2768249.cms
Didn't the Gates Fundation [sic] dump some charity there around the same time
as the "No" vote?
Format harmonization getting government help?
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| The incentive for Microsoft to fully cooperate and fully interoperate should
| be greater given global antitrust pressures. ODF developers and supporters
| should take the opportunity to do likewise, thus improving format flexibility
| and choice.
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2008/02/08/format-harmonization-getting-government-help/
Related:
[Microsoft on OOXML:] "Its a simple matter of commercial interests!"
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| However the latest whine from Microsoft blaming IBM for its misfortune of
| OOXML at ISO revealed something interesting. Read what the Senior Directors
| for XML Technology said:
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| "Let's be very clear," [Jean] Paoli said. "It has been fostered by a
| single company — IBM. If it was not for IBM, it would have been business
| as usual for this standard."
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| Business as usual for this standard? If he thinks its usual to fast track a
| 6000 page document with thousands of criticisms and due for a huge overhaul
| after the BRM, he must be deluded. Unless he meant "Business as usual for our
| cash cow?" - the cash cow being Microsoft Office. Yes, conjecture I know, but
| that makes much more sense.
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http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2008/02/its-a-simple-ma.html
Microsoft admits Swedish employee promised incentives for Open XML support
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| Microsoft Corp. admitted Wednesday that an employee at its Swedish subsidiary
| offered monetary compensation to partners for voting in favor of the Office
| Open XML document format's approval as an ISO standard.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9033701
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