OOXML petition passes 40,000 signatures

Re: OOXML petition passes 40,000 signatures

Sun, 02 Sep 2007 02:39:27 +0000

agree, please take off this post or rewrite it

this isn't a personal attack to Microsoft , but a "fight" to keep the ISO quality and the TRUE meaning of the word 'standard'

( standard != internal documentation of a product )
( standard != DIS 29500(OOXML) )

Re: OOXML petition passes 40,000 signatures

Sun, 02 Sep 2007 02:28:11 +0000

Can we have a petition to ISO highlighting the irregularities/ (mal)practices indulged in by Microsoft to get a yes vote for OOXML in the NBs.
With so much reporting happening on the above subject, should a draft be available we can even look at writing directly to ISO and also copying our NBs to pressurise them to raise the matter in ISO.

Re: OOXML petition passes 40,000 signatures

Sun, 02 Sep 2007 01:54:52 +0000

I tend to agree, lets keep the language proffessional and consise, truth will prevail, lets just stick with it, we are however very grateful for your efforts and significant contributions, so please take this as constructive critism.

Peter Firmstone.
B. Mech. Eng.

Re: OOXML petition passes 40,000 signatures

Sun, 02 Sep 2007 00:28:02 +0000

Why the very strong language? While I wholeheartedly agree with your point, I do not approve of your way of stating it above. Please consider at least editing out some of the more offensive words ("nasty junk", "flunkies", whore"), your point can be made without them. This forum has managed to stay clear of enraged statements like this one until now, and that, I think, is the key to its success. I know that's why I have kept reading it and contributing to it. Now is not the time to change the tone. If you want to be nasty, be so in what you say, not how you say it. Posts like this will only be quoted as "evidence" to FFII being a bunch of raving hate-mongers. We all know that is not what you are, but taken out of context, your post above might actually do more damage than good.

OOXML petition passes 40,000 signatures

Sat, 01 Sep 2007 23:32:01 +0000

Stefano Bortolotti, italy, was the 40,000th person to sign the petition.

Forty thousand people took the time to read the petition, sign it, and confirm their signature. Microsoft: if you thought this was just "IBM and its commercial allies" opposing you, as you keep writing on the Wikipedia OOXML page, be warned! You have forty thousand angry people around the world thinking of ways to stop you. It's time to recognize that you're going be beaten by the community, and try to save some face. Take back your nasty OOXML junk. Apologise for stuffing the national boards with your flunkies. Say you're sorry for trying to fix the rules to your advantage. Tell us you'll fix the 300-plus bugs in your so-called-international-standard, and take out the patent bombs. Stop using ECMA to whore your way into ISO. Become a respectable citizen of the digital society, or we will whip you and run you out of town. It stops here. No more. — Pieter Hintjens, President of the FFII