Archive for the ‘Standards’ 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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Tuesday, March 30th, 2010
I was pointed yesterday to a page from the Free Software Foundation Europe (fsfe short) which describes the changes between the original and current draft for the "European Interoperatibility Framework" EIF - to quote the conclusion:
[...] we can only conclude that the European Commission is giving strong preference to the ...
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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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