[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


---------- Forwarded message ----------
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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