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The Polish Standardization Committee wants to get answers to the three questions: 1. Is there a certifiable violation of patent and IP policy of ISO?; 2. Is the proposed norm meets the aims of international norm described
in ISO/IEC directives?;
3. Is the proposed norm is in contradiction with other existing ISO norms?
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Thanks to many contributors, the NoOOXML petition now has translations in 35 languages and has received over 31,000 signatures from individuals around the world.
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by: 06 Aug 2007 13:33 |
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Our correspondent from the Caucasus reports on his efforts to shed some light on the OOXML vote in Azerbaijan, a P-Member. Seems Microsoft 'arranged' the vote already...
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by: 24 Jul 2007 09:51 |
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EU competition policy is a lame duck but it is alive. However, Kroes won't sanitize OOXML patent and disclosure problems.
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by: 03 Aug 2007 10:09 |
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The Andalusian Government denounces that Microsoft has fakely reported officially that Andalusia was backing the ISO DIS 29500 approval in AENOR (Spanish NSB). Andalusia reports that it has already choosen ISO/IEC 26300 (OpenDocument).
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by: 23 Jul 2007 16:32 |
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Microsoft has put in the Brazilian committee more than 2/3 of the currently existing 54 members. The technical debate about DIS 29500 does not matter now. Only matters who puts more members in the committee for the final vote at the end August. ISO and ABNT are being hijacked by Microsoft and its partners.
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by: 02 Aug 2007 15:16 |
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In a press release, the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) warns that the OOXML vote is one of only two major decisions in September that will define the future of interoperability in the key desktop computing market.
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by: 01 Aug 2007 12:42 |
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BoycottNovell is mentioning that the Microsoft puppets have reached the number of 17 our of 31 in the Danish technical committee. Is there a Dane reading us to officially complain about this joke?
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by: 28 Jul 2007 17:25 |
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Microsoft has been defeated in Spain (a place that they were expecting to win) for 4 votes against 3 including one from Microsoft itself. The rejection won by a majority of votes, but the final vote of Spain will be an ABSTENTION because the internal rules of AENOR require a 2/3 majority either way. Spain is a "P" (principal) member at ISO/IEC.
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by: 30 Jul 2007 18:42 |
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You have 2 kind of secretaries: those who write binary and those who don't.
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by: 25 Jul 2007 21:46 |
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"ISO standards are like the old ladies of the standards world, respectable, prim, a bit musty, but irreproachable. No-one ever got fired for implementing an ISO standard. And with good reason—ISO has always been a careful process of assembling diverse opinion, negotiating away conflict, and reaching consensus. Membership of ISO committees is voluntary and unpaid. In other words, ISO is a sitting duck for someone with the money and the will to abuse the system. "
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by: 27 Jul 2007 13:42 |
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Microsoft is continuing its lobbying on OOXML in the United States towards the members of INCITS, namelly HP, Apple, Intel, Lexmark, etc...
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by: 23 Jul 2007 16:50 |
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Jon Bosak, the Sun Microsystems XML guru, is mentionning that Sun is supporting the ISO standardisation of OOXML. But maybe not at any price.
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by: 18 Jul 2007 18:23 |
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Microsoft is looking for puppets to represent themselves in the Australian Standardization Body: "We need more Aussie companies supporting Office Open XML". Maybe Microsoft is interested in technical comments on their broken standard?
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by: 20 Jul 2007 11:08 |
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Microsoft OOXML has been rejected yesterday in South Africa by 13 NO votes against 2 YES votes with comments and 2 YES votes without comments.
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by: 19 Jul 2007 12:23 |
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Citizens of MS Ireland are invited to sent their comment to NSAI no later than 11 July 2007.
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by: 30 Jun 2007 14:06 |
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Microsoft failed to get approval for its "Yes with comments" in the technical committee in the United States for one puppet. Buy more puppets now!
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by: 17 Jul 2007 22:58 |
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It is clear that Microsoft is behind OpenXML, however ECMA is the one who should answer the comments to the delegations.
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by: 16 Jul 2007 13:25 |
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OpenXML.info is reporting that IBM and Sun were excluded from participation in the discussions in Portugal on OOXML, because there were no seats available in the room. Microsoft had nevertheless many people representing them in the room, not counting their puppets.
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by: 16 Jul 2007 21:10 |
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Few comments submitted by mr. Pavel Janik were translated.
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