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[News] IBM on Microsoft's OOXML Corruptions ("Bad Behavior")

  • Subject: [News] IBM on Microsoft's OOXML Corruptions ("Bad Behavior")
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:15:00 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
IBM responds to Microsoft: OOXML is "technically inferior"

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| IBM: Microsoft is engaging in "bad behavior"
|
| We spoke to Bob Sutor, vice president of standards and open source for IBM, 
| who responded to Microsoft's recent claims regarding IBM's involvement in the 
| OOXML dispute. "IBM believes that there is a revolution occurring in the IT 
| industry, and that smart people around the world are demanding truly open 
| standards developed in a collaborative, democratic way for the betterment of 
| all," Sutor told Ars. "If 'business as usual' means trying to foist a rushed, 
| technically inferior and product-specific piece of work like OOXML on the IT 
| industry, we're proud to stand with the tens of countries and thousands of 
| individuals who are willing to fight against such bad behavior.         
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080204-ibm-responds-to-microsoft-ooxml-is-technically-inferior.html

Reflections

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| It is getting personal. Now Microsoft openly attacks IBM and IBM employees. 
| The accusations against IBM of leading the international effort against 
| office open xml ISO standardization are far from reality. However, the real 
| matter is if that accusation is defamatory for IBM.  
| 
| [...]
| 
| The campaign has to criticize the submitter. IBM clearly prefers a more 
| diplomatic approach. Standard experts as IBM's Rob Weir provided widely 
| recognized factual analysis. IBM may talk about "small nations that are 
| easily influenced" while a campaign would call them a "banana republic". 
| Through the debate we got closer and closer to more direct communication. 
| From mostly unreadable marketing language we transformed the language of the 
| submitter into emotional frank statements.       
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-39604/reflections


Related:

More Irregularities in the OOXML ISO Process Surface

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| If you read about what happened there in that article, "OOXML in Norway: The 
| haywire process," your jaw will simply drop. I do think there is something 
| the matter with the ISO process if this is how it works.  
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070827111019189


OOXML in Norway: The haywire process

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| I believe that anything that sanctions unfair competition is bad. I believe 
| in a world where the threshold for competition is low and where everyone are  
| free to easily innovate. 
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http://blogs.freecode.no/isene/?p=3


Microsoft Hires Programmer to edit Wikipedia Entry For OOXML

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/79130/index.html


No is no, to OOXML

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| I’ve heard several reports of supporters of OOXML trying to get national 
| standards bodies to change their votes from “NO with comments” to “YES with 
| comments” because “it’s the same thing.” The logic, which I’ll explain in a 
| later post, is that any comments will trigger a ballot resolution meeting, so 
| there is no need to be so negative and vote NO.    
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http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=1762


What Happened in Germany [on OOXML]

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| It looks like Germany is the new Portugal, actually. You do remember how in 
| Portugal IBM and Sun were not allowed in the room because it was 
| allegedly "too small" despite having empty chairs? Well, in Germany, Google 
| and Deutsche Telekom were allowed in the room but were not allowed to vote, 
| heise says.    
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070824123112581


IBM is still locked out of the Portuguese OOXML meeting

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| In spite of various communications, we [IBM] are still locked out and will 
| not be allowed to participate. Microsoft will be there, as well as a special 
| Microsoft guest, as will various Microsoft business partners, and others.  
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http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=1755


Latest INCITS Voting Results on OOXML; JTC1 Vote Begins to be Stacked

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| The government decided to vote together, and to follow NIST (Homeland 
| Security had voted in favor of approval in the previous ballot), so DoD fell 
| in line as well.  NIST, you may recall, is an agency of the Department of 
| Commerce (as I reported Steve Ballmer personally called the Secretary of the 
| DOC to urge this result).  GS1is a technical association.    
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http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=2007082413463944


Microsoft Looks for the Big Guns in OOXML In-Fighting

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| Bill Gates has reportedly been making phone calls to the Secretary of Defense 
| and the Secretary of Commerce to push the American National Standards 
| Institute to ignore the votes of its advisory committees and vote "yes" on 
| ISO standardizing Microsoft's Open Office XML (OOXML) format, the one in 
| competition with the OpenDocument Format (ODF) pushed by IBM and Sun.    
| 
| Gates reportedly picked up the phone when the last INCITS ballot failed by 
| one vote to support Microsoft. 
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http://xml.sys-con.com/read/419573_p.htm


,----[ Quote ]
| "Sadly, many of these brilliant people have been blinded by the stock
| price and unable to see that Microsoft is also the key architect of
| the greatest financial pyramid scheme this century. 
| 
|  It is not uncommon for participants in pyramid schemes to lose their
| emotional bearings. My close friends who work at Microsoft are
| particularly upset over my work and it is possible that even Bill
| Gates and Steve Ballmer do not realize the implications of their
| financial practices."
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http://www.billparish.com/msftfraudfacts.html


,----[ Quote ]
| "As with all pyramid schemes, it is important to get as close to tier
| 1 as possible. From a practical standpoint, usually only tiers 1 and 2
| will derive significant long-term economic rewards from such schemes."
| 
| "Microsoft has clearly entered a phase of self destructive behavior
| that began with the "tissue paper campaign" in 1995. This report will
| document this campaign for the first time."
`----

http://reactor-core.org/microsoft-pyramid.html

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