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Redefining Openness (with lawyers)
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| Ah, there we go! The surprise of the day really comes from -would you have
| guessed it?- Microsoft.
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| [...]
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| Now that’s an open standard of the open kind, open as in “open, but not
| open”; “open but actually quite closed” “open but get out of here”, open as
| in “open to the good old boys”, open as in “open to your money and to our
| profits”, open as in “open deception”. And of course, who thought OOXML could
| be that open? I’m sure the rest of my colleagues at the Afnor will be left in
| shock and awe when they learn the news. Everything they ever truly believed
| in , OOXML, was never thought in those terms. I can’t wait for XPS, guys,
| we’re going to have tons of fun, really. I am also waiting for Microsoft’s
| possible, albeit unlikely, explanation to this. I’m laughing so hard I’m
| about to roll on the floor.
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http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/07/22/redefining-openness-with-lawyers/
Help defeat Microsoft's OOXML format!
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| The fight against the adoption of OOXML as an ISO standard is continuing in
| many countries. In the UK the UK Unix & Open Systems User Group (UKUUG)
| unsuccessfully, sought a judicial review of the British Standards Institute's
| decision to vote yes. UKUUG are now seeking to appeal against that rejection
| of a review and you can help them.
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http://www.fsf.org/news/odf-ooxml
Can ISO be sued as well? And also Microsoft, which was caught engaging in
bribery?
Recent:
ISO process slammed
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| Rob Weir, co-chairman of the OASIS Open Document Format (ODF) technical
| committee, says the blatant committee backing around the world to have the
| standard ratified was disconcerting. He says in several countries, countries
| voted yes at the last minute and were “heard of no more. It makes a mockery
| of the system.”
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http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/software/2008/0806131046.asp?O=FPTOP&S=Legal%20View&A=LEG
Related:
Microsoft influencing partner NGOs to support OOXML in India
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| Microsoft is encouraging its business partners to promote its Office Open XML
| specification (OOXML) to the Indian Bureau of Standards (BIS) and Ministry of
| IT. This move has incensed supporters of the rival OpenDocument Format (ODF)
| who fear that the "soft" Indian state may not be able to stand up to
| Microsoft pressure tactics.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/128528
Microsoft India using NGOs to fake support for OOXML
http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-44038/microsoft-india-using-ngos-to-fake-support-for-ooxml
Microsoft "persuades" NGOs to support OOXML
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| Our friends at Linux Delhi have put up a copy of the form letters that
| Microsoft has been sending NGOs on the OOXML issue. Apparently, these NGOs
| have been sending copies of these letters to the Ministry of IT and Bureau of
| Indian standards.
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http://osindia.blogspot.com/2008/02/microsoft-persuades-ngos-to-support.html
Using NGOs to Push Agendas
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| The extent to which Microsoft can go in its efforts to get OOXML is
| interesting. Microsoft has "persuaded" several non-profit organizations to
| bombard the Indian IT Secretary and the Additional Director General of the
| Bureau of Indian Standards with letters supporting its OOXML proposal. A copy
| of the form letter they have been circulating to NGOs is given below.
| Somebody should interview these NGOs to see how much they really know about
| OOXML and open standards.
|
| The sequence of events leading up to the spamming of GoI? is:
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| Letter from an NGO thanking Microsoft (name changed to protect their
| identity)
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http://wiki.linux-delhi.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/OpenStandards/MsNgoLobby
IIT Bombay, Microsoft at loggerheads
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| The Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, has taken strong objection to the
| fact that despite a "No" to OOXML by a majority of the Bureau of Indian
| Standardsmembers, the software giant "continued to make representations to
| the top Indian leadership (read Ministry of Consumer Affairs), pressuring
| them to change the Indian vote".
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| The BIS represented India as a participating member of the ISO. Its LITD 15
| committee -- of which IIT-Bombay was a part -- was responsible for examining
| OOXML and deciding on a "No" regarding India's position at the ISO.
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http://www.rediff.com/money/2008/may/28iit.htm
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