Archive for the ‘OOXML’ Category
Thursday, July 8th, 2010
ISO finally revises the voting directives for open standards after the OOXML debacle in 2007 / 2008. One of the changes is that the national bodies should no longer vote with "Yes, with comments" if they encounter serious flaws and trust on the ballot resolution meeting to get their issues ...
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008
Rob Weir has put up an interesting, yet very sarcastic blog about the future of OOXML. From the article:
[...] Another example of working on autopilot is the ad-hoc working group in SC34 [ISO subcommittee for document description and processing languages] looking at OOXML maintenance. Although it was heralded with much ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Remember this number - 7228.
This is the total amount of pages the final ISO version of Office Open XML (OOXML) will have - spread over four parts.
If I put this number in perspective with Microsoft's recent effor to "save our trees" (Link, IE-only...), I'm not sure if I should be ...
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Via the NoOOXML mailing list:
When one thinks of international human rights, one thinks of The Hague
- home of the International Court of Justice and the International
Criminal Court, and the situs of an increasing number of Tribunals
chartered to redress the assaults on human dignity that inexcusably
continue to plague this planet. ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
If you like to have a laugh today, read this. Found via Rob Weir's blog.
The Monotone Summit goes on and its quite fun to meet and work with all the people I just know from IRC or the mailing list. I mostly worked on automation stuff so far and improved ...
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
Steve Pepper, the former chairman of the Norwegian mirror committee SC34, tells his version of the story which led to the YES vote on OOXML:
[...] at this point, the “rules” were changed. The VP asserted that “Ecma has clearly made steps in the right direction.” The most important thing now ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
As it was already rumored, OOXML got its official approval by ISO today. (Does ISO stand for "I Sell Out" nowadays?)
Benjamin Henrion, initiator of the OOXML campaign, notes:
Committee stuffing is a standard practice for Microsoft. Microsoft raped ISO with their office file formats, leaving the organization in limbo. The whole ...
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Sunday, March 30th, 2008
(Source)
"Counting the countries, it is pretty certain that the votes are enough to get OOXML through this vote." said Pieter Hintjens on the Noooxml-mailing list. A press release for tomorrow has been prepared:
Geneva, 1 April 2008. The International Organization for
Standardization announced at a press conference that its processes are
"broken" and ...
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
Germany is voting "YES" on DIS 29500 at ISO. The relevant committee was given by DIN only the choice between "YES" and "ABSTAIN" on DIS 29500, since changing from "YES with comments" in September 2007 to "NO" in March 2008 was deemed impossible. Everyone could vote "yes", "abstain" or "no" ...
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Saturday, March 1st, 2008
98.4% of the OOXML Proposed Dispositions were approved by a three to two majority at the BRM, validating OOXML
The OOXML Proposed Dispositions OOXML were overwhelmingly rejected by the delegations in attendance at the BRM, indicating the inability of OOXML to be adequately addressed within the "Fast Track" process
(Source: ConsortiumInfo.org)
So, depending ...
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