I will be present at the Linux Beer Hike on 2-9 September in Crete, also enclosing an FFII board meeting on 7-8 September. Time for me to finish writing the minu… I mean the agenda. Will see if I can get some pictures up here next week.
Archive for August, 2007
Linux Beer Hike
Posted in crete, ffii, lbw on August 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
SiS confirms: Sweden abstains from voting on OOXML
Posted in iso, microsoft, ooxml, sis on August 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I just received confirmation from SiS that Sweden will not vote on OOXML. This is because scheduling a new meeting on such short notice (less than three weeks) would have required unanimous approval, and this was not reached in the working group. Therefore, a new vote is not possible. Update 17:05: SiS has issued a [...]
SiS retracts its OOXML decision!
Posted in iso, microsoft, ooxml, sis on August 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
SiS just published a press release saying that the decision on Monday is annulled, and Sweden will likely abstain from voting on OOXML, due to procedural issues. More info as soon as I’ve catched up. Update 21:15: partial translation: (may contain mistranslated terms) Office Open XML – SiS invalidates the vote The Swedish working group [...]
Microsoft acknowledged OOXML problems
Posted in iso, microsoft, ooxml, sis on August 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
On 15 June, at one of the first meetings of the SiS OOXML working group, presentations were held about ODF and OOXML, respectively. (The OOXML one was one of those “black is white” shows – after seeing it you’d be tempted to believe that all the problems were a good thing.) Anyhow, Microsoft was present [...]
Highlights of the SiS meeting on 27 August
Posted in iso, microsoft, ooxml, sis on August 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The SiS working group received vast amounts of comments on OOXML, from several parties that had paid the required fee of 600 SEK / 65 EUR (yep…). All of them but one also submitted a recommendation for a resolution to OOXML; 27 companies suggested a YES vote, but did not write even one sentence to [...]
NyT: "Microsoft admits SiS voting coup"
Posted in iso, microsoft, ooxml, sis on August 29, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Summary from an NyT article: (roughly) Microsoft admits that it’s behind the SiS voting coup that resulted in proposing the OOXML document format as a standard.- Mistakes have been done at our end, says Klas Hammar, Microsoft. Klas goes on to say that this action was done by a “individual employee” and that the action [...]
IDG: "Microsoft put pressure on partners to vote YES"
Posted in iso, microsoft, ooxml, sis on August 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
IDG just published an update on the Microsoft scandal. Quick and dirty translation of the summary: Microsoft offered extra ‘market subsidies’ to partners that participated in the Monday vote about the Open XML format. This appears from internal communication that CS has seen. ‘It was badly formulated and would never have gone out’ says the [...]
Microsoft’s Office coup in Sweden
Posted in iso, microsoft, ooxml, sis on August 29, 2007 | 4 Comments »
On Monday, 27 August, the Swedish Standards Institute (SiS) declared its coming vote for the “Office Open XML” (OOXML) standard proposal initiated by Microsoft. All such ISO participants in this matter must vote no later than 2 September. The working group that recommended this decision to SiS originally had 12 members, where a NO vote [...]
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