Some metrics for measuring the success of the OOXML BRM
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| # How many total comments were there and how many were fully discussed with
| consensus reached at the meeting?
| # What percentage of the total comments were fully discussed with consensus
| reached this week? Was it closest to 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%,60%, 70%, 80%,
| 90%, or 100%?
| # Conversely, what percentage of the total comments were voted on without a
| full discussion and consensus reached? Was it closest to 10%, 20%, 30%,
| 40%, 50%,60%, 70%, 80%, 90%, or 100%?
| # Individual or closely related comments from countries were considered in
| country alphabetical order, cycling through as many times as necessary. How
| many full cycles were there?
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http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=2085
Document Slavery Day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiitAbKbA3g
"If you flee the rules, you will be caught. And it will cost you dearly,"
-- Neelie Kroes (about Microsoft), February 27th, 2008
Yesterday:
European regulator fines Microsoft $1.35 billion
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| In addition, Microsoft recently acknowledged that the commission is also
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| looking into lobbying efforts for its Open XML file format, which has been
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| derided by critics as insufficiently accessible. Microsoft unsuccessfully
| sought last year to receive approval from the International Organization for
| Standardization, or ISO, to have Open XML declared an international standard.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/european-regulator-fines-microsoft-135/story.aspx?guid=%7B4421D497-DECC-41BF-9C86-E4C815C25241%7D
Robbery at the BRM?
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| LinuxWorld mentions that the BRM organisors are making a paper ballot on all
| the 900 comments. It seems that the BRM organisors are "robbing national
| delegations of the opportunity to propose their own modifications".
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| The purpose of this robbery might be to avoid any fix to the standard.
| MS-ECMA have not proposed any changes, and this robbery is designed to get
| the message that the BRM have fixed some issues.
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-43897/robbery-at-the-brm
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