[News] Fingers Pointing at François Fillon and Other Conspirators in Microsoft's OOXML Corruptions
Roy Schestowitz
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RGI : François Fillon's gift to Microsoft
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| The decree validating the General
| Interoperability Framework was published in
| the French "Journal Officiel" on the 11th of
| November 2009. It ratifies the 12th of May
| 2009 version which spreads confusion by
| recommending two rival standards for office
| documents. April had already denounced a
| writing opposed to the goals of
| interoperability and accessibility of e-
| administration for all citizens.
|
| "RGI as it is written maintains the
| confusion about office documents standards.
| It hands public administrations over to
| Microsoft's deceptions and dooms their data
| to be kept locked in proprietary formats"
| explained public affairs manager Alix
| Cazenave. "Far from promoting
| interoperability this duplicity will
| generate discrimination between citizens for
| the access to electronic administrations."
|
| In April's opinion, this record confirms
| that the French executive authority hardly
| pays attention to competition in the
| software market. "After the intervention of
| the President's people in favor of
| Microsoft's OOXML standardization, the fact
| that the Prime Minister ratifies this order
| confirms the support of the French executive
| authority to Microsoft's dominant position.
| We have just missed a historical opportunity
| to support openness and innovation in the
| software market" denounced Frédéric Couchet,
| executive director.
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http://www.april.org/en/rgi-francois-fillons-gift-microsoft
Abaixo assinado de alunos pede a inclusão do ODF no TCC e na publicação de periódicos
EU: European ede-a-inclusao-do-odf-no-tcc-
http://www.epractice.eu/en/news/299020
Ekspert: »Microsoft lyver«
http://www.business.dk/article/20091114/techmobil/91114001/
Ekspert: Microsoft lyver!
http://www.version2.dk/artikel/12869-ekspert-microsoft-lyver
Asking the right questions about Office 2010's OOXML support
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| There is more OOXML controversy in the news,
| this time in Denmark. I don't claim to
| understand all the nuances of the
| accusations, since I don't read Danish, and
| Google Translates makes it sound at times
| like a discussion about loaves of rye bread
| or something, but the gist of it, as I can
| surmise from this account, is whether Office
| 2010 will "support the complete ISO-approved
| version of OOXML". Microsoft's spokesperson
| says it will. Mogens Kühn Pedersen, chair of
| the Danish Standards Committee, says it will
| not.
|
| [...]
|
| The problem you run into here is that there
| are really two different OOXML standards:
| the new and improved OOXML Strict
| conformance class, the one that was "sold"
| to ISO NBs, the one that garnered the
| approval votes, and then the old ugly one,
| the "haunted" specification, the
| Transitional conformance class, supported
| only by Microsoft Office. Anyone considering
| adopting OOXML should have perfect clarity
| as to which one they are adopting,
| especially since these are two very
| different standards, both formally and
| logically. Just as it is problematic to
| speak about OOXML support in a product
| without stating which conformance classes
| and targets are supported, it is equally a
| defect of any adoption policy to be loose in
| what version of OOXML is being proposed for
| adoption.
|
| IMHO, if you must state a requirement for
| OOXML (along with ODF), at least specify it
| clearly, and state a requirement for "strict
| conformance" (meaning no extensions) of the
| Strict conformance classes of ISO/IEC
| 29500:2008. To do otherwise is to
| essentially specify a requirement for the
| use of Microsoft Office and Microsoft Office
| alone.
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http://www.robweir.com/blog/2009/11/asking-right-questions-about-office.html
Digital forkalkning udskyder ODF/OOXML-afgørelse
http://www.computerworld.dk/art/53921?a=rss&i=0
Digital forkalkning udskyder ODF/OOXML-afgørelse
http://epn.dk/teknologi2/branchen/article1890759.ece
Recent:
File formats, methods, and computer program products for representing presentations
Microsoft Patents XML Word Processing Documents
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| "Embrace. Extend. Patent. On Tuesday, Microsoft was granted U.S. Patent
| No.7,571,169 for its 'invention' of the Word-processing document stored in a
| single XML file that may be manipulated by applications that understand XML.
| Presumably developers are protected by Microsoft's 'covenant not to sue', so
| the biggest question raised by this patent is: How in the world was it
| granted in light of the 40-year history of document markup languages? Next
| thing you know, the USPTO will give Microsoft a patent for Providing
| Emergency Data in XML format. Oops, too late."
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http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/08/06/2322209/Microsoft-Patents-XML-Word-Processing-Documents?art_pos=1
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