(I mentioned some of the following ideas in a presentation I held on Thursday at KTH, and thought I would share them. As a side-note, there may be another FFII-style lecture here later this year, covering a wider range of topics but also some OOXML material again.) OOXML, to me, is not a standard; I [...]
Archive for September, 2007
The impact of OOXML
Posted in iso, microsoft, ooxml on September 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
EU and terrorism
Posted in censorship, eu, politics, terrorism on September 13, 2007 | 1 Comment »
According to Reuters, EU Justice and Security Commissioner Franco Frattini proposes to “prevent people from using or searching dangerous words like bomb, kill, genocide or terrorism”. I haven’t yet seen any updates yet, so I’m not sure how this is progressing. Nevertheless, this is probably my favourite of EU initiatives, only in direct competition with [...]
Black sheep
Posted in black sheep, iso, ooxml on September 11, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Interesting what happens during one’s vacation / work abroad. Miguel de Icaza, founder of GNOME and Mono, writes that “OOXML is a superb standard”, even implying that it’s better than OpenDocument. With all due respect to his work on GNOME (and Mono, though the conditions for such a project is another discussion), I perceive a [...]
Microsoft spin on OOXML
Posted in iso, microsoft, ooxml on September 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It’s so easy to poke fun at Microsoft’s futile attempts of PR spin, but I’ll try to restrain myself to a few examples. In their press release on the preliminary OOXML rejection, it is suggested that there is “strong global support” for OOXML. Tom Robertson is quoted as pointing out the “high quality of the [...]
Microsoft vs. FFII : 1-1 on OOXML
Posted in iso, microsoft, ooxml on September 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
ISO has just confirmed that no criteria for approval of OOXML has yet been fulfilled. They have also announced that a Ballot Resolution Meeting will be held in February 2008 in order to (possibly) get another result. Update 5 Sept 11:20: FFII just published a press release.
OOXML, preliminary ISO vote results
Posted in iso, microsoft, ooxml, sis on September 3, 2007 | 1 Comment »
ISO is expected to announce the vote results today. Meanwhile, here is a map showing inofficial estimations (may be incomplete relative to the figures here). According to the voting rules there needs to be a qualified majority (2/3) of all participating members that vote. Of those, currently there seems to be 12+ NO votes, and [...]
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