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Red Hat: Australia missed OOXML opportunity
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| Australia was one of 41 countries that participated in decision to replace
| the previous standard, OpenDocument Format (ODF), with OOXML (Open Office
| XML) which is developed and promoted by Microsoft.
|
| Denmark, Germany, Japan and Singapore were among 24 countries that voted in
| favour of Microsoft’s format. Eight countries, including China and New
| Zealand disapproved, while nine countries, including Australia, chose to
| abstain from voting.
|
| “I was very disappointed that Australia did not vote,” Feldmann said. “Your
| New Zealand cousins did, and they said no.”
|
| “You really missed an opportunity there,” he said.
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http://www.itnews.com.au/News/76442,red-hat-australia-missed-ooxml-opportunity.aspx
And another:
Alliance Weighs In on Microsoft Interoperability in Education
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| In response to last week's action by Becta, the ODF Alliance's managing
| director, Marino Marcich, released the following statement today: "That a
| major government agency, in this case the UK Government's lead agency for
| information and communications technology (ICT) in education, felt compelled
| to take such an action demonstrates that the wider marketplace, which
| includes educational and training organizations, libraries and archival
| institutions, will be adversely impacted by OOXML's impediments to
| interoperability. We have repeatedly urged Microsoft to provide native,
| built-in support for the truly open ODF document standard, as [Becta] has
| suggested."
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http://www.thejournal.com/articles/22639
Related:
XML format meeting decider
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| AUSTRALIA'S stance in the global stoush over Microsoft's bid to make its XML
| document file format an international standard will be thrashed out by local
| experts today.
|
| [...]
|
| Open Source Industry Australia spokesman Brendan Scott said he only received
| Standards Australia's report late last Friday for discussion by the technical
| working group today.
|
| "It's very difficult to work out what's involved in the final draft," Mr
| Scott said. "There isn't a complete document containing all the changes.
|
| "It's a big ask to have sensible comment on such a big document in such a
| short time."
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http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,23351994-15306,00.html
Standards Australia defends Jelliffe he has never developed Microsoft products
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| Look at this press release from Standards Australia, it is really funny how
| they carefully weight their words:
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| The article also incorrectly describes Rick Jelliffe as a ‘Microsoft
| developer’. While Mr Jelliffe consults widely to industry and government
| including Microsoft, he has never developed Microsoft products.
|
| Let's rewrite it like this to see if it changes something:
|
| Rick Jelliffe is not a ‘Microsoft developer’ as such. While Mr Jelliffe
| is being paid for consultancy work by Microsoft, he is not developing
| Microsoft products.
|
| Where is the money?
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-42872/standards-australia-defends-jelliffe:he-has-never-developed-microsoft-products
Microsoft developer joins Aussie OOXML standards delegation
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| Last year Jelliffe was implicated in editing OOXML Wikipedia entries at the
| request of Microsoft. A public explanation is available on Jelliffe's blog.
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http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;445400562;fp;16;fpid;1
How to Get Your Platform Accepted as a Standard - Microsoft Style
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| In the section of an internal manual on effective evangelism, written in 1997
| by James Plamondon, Technical Evangelist, he lays out an elaborate series of
| steps to get Microsoft's platforms accepted as de facto standards. Among the
| steps lists are working behind the scenes with supposedly independent but
| actually pliable and supportive analysts and consultants.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20071023002351958
Australia stalls OOXML vote as NZ scratches head
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| With the countdown on to the International Organization for Standardization
| (ISO) ballot on OOXML, Australia and New Zealand's representatives are
| keeping their cards close to their chests on which way they will vote.
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Australia-stalls-OOXML-vote-as-NZ-scratches-head/0,130061733,339286594,00.htm
Standards Australia denies OOXML bias
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| Representatives from IBM, Google, Catalyst IT and Waugh Partners expressed
| their concern the appointment of Topologi director Rick Jelliffe to the
| delegation was not indicative of the wider industry view on OOXML
| standardization.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1735452258&rid=-50
The OOXML BRM and Australia: What happens next
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| Senior project manager at Standards Australia, Panjan Navaratnam, will head
| the delegation and shoulder the responsibility for all Australian positions.
| He will be supported in an advisory role by technical expert Rick Jeliffe.
|
| Despite some concerns surrounding the objectivity of Jeliffe, Standards
| Australia insists that its delegates are not participating as an agent of any
| personal or organisational viewpoint.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1392366014&rid=-50
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