[Fsf-friends] Fwd: [Asiasource2-participants] Say NO to the
Microsoft Office format as an ISO standard (sign the petition)
Sayamindu Dasgupta
sayamindu@[EMAIL-PROTECTED]
Mon Jun 25 17:04:15 IST 2007
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From: Farzaneh Sarafraz <farzaane at gmail.com>
Date: Jun 25, 2007 3:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Asiasource2-participants] Say NO to the Microsoft Office
format as an ISO standard (sign the petition)
To: David Tremblay <david at lerap.org>
Cc: Asia Source 2 <asiasource2-participants at iosn.net>
I think anybody who has contacts in their local standardization
organization should do something. We have started negotiating about
it, and I am aware of people (specially OO.o people) doing it in their
countries.
On 6/25/07, David Tremblay <david at lerap.org> wrote:
> Say NO to the Microsoft Office format as an ISO standard
> * There is already a standard ISO26300 named Open Document Format
> (ODF): a dual standard adds costs, uncertainty and confusion to
> industry, government and citizens;
> * There is no provable implementation of the OOXML specification:
> Microsoft Office 2007 produces a special version of OOXML, not a
> file format which complies with the OOXML specification;
> * There is missing information from the specification document,
> for example how to do a autoSpaceLikeWord95 or
> useWord97LineBreakRules;
> * More than 10% of the examples mentioned in the proposed standard
> do not validate as XML;
> * There is no guarantee that anybody can write a software that
> fully or partially implements the OOXML specification without
> being liable to patent damages or patent license fees by
> Microsoft;
> * This standard proposal conflicts with other ISO standards, such
> as ISO 8601 (Representation of dates and times), ISO 639 (Codes
> for the Representation of Names and Languages) or ISO/IEC
> 10118-3 (cryptographic hash);
> * There is a bug in the spreadsheet file format which forbids to
> enter any date before the year 1900: such bugs affects the OOXML
> specification as well as software versions such as Microsoft
> Excel 2000, XP, 2003 or 2007.
> * This standard proposal has not been created by bringing together
> the experience and expertise of all interested parties (such as
> the producers, sellers, buyers, users and regulators), but by
> Microsoft alone.
>
> Add your name to the http://www.noooxml.org/petition/
>
>
>
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