Comments on: ISO and Office Open XML (OOXML): What REALLY Happened There? http://techrights.org/2007/06/19/iso-spam-ooxml/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:00:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2007/06/19/iso-spam-ooxml/comment-page-1/#comment-994 Roy Schestowitz Wed, 20 Jun 2007 04:43:42 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2007/06/19/iso-spam-ooxml/#comment-994 *grin* Maybe they pay in Ferrari laptops, but either way, here are some more examples: http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/01/25/a-wake-up-call-to-microsofts-pr-team/ Vista (bloggers): http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2077596,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000616 Windows products (Indian bloggers): http://i5bala.blogspot.com/2006/10/microsoft-traps-and-hunts-for-bloggers.html OS/2-Windows, XBox (forums and maybe fake Web sites): http://worldcadaccess.typepad.com/gizmos/2005/11/2_grassroots_an.html *grin* Maybe they pay in Ferrari laptops, but either way, here are some more examples:

http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/01/25/a-wake-up-call-to-microsofts-pr-team/

Vista (bloggers):

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2077596,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000616

Windows products (Indian bloggers):

http://i5bala.blogspot.com/2006/10/microsoft-traps-and-hunts-for-bloggers.html

OS/2-Windows, XBox (forums and maybe fake Web sites):

http://worldcadaccess.typepad.com/gizmos/2005/11/2_grassroots_an.html

]]> By: gpl1 http://techrights.org/2007/06/19/iso-spam-ooxml/comment-page-1/#comment-992 gpl1 Wed, 20 Jun 2007 03:49:59 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2007/06/19/iso-spam-ooxml/#comment-992 By the by, I love how they all contradict IBM's letter, which shows contradictions in OOXML to existing standards. I guess if they repeat it enough and try and try again... History of MS Shilling, http://www.inlumineconsulting.com:8080/website/msft.shilling.html http://lists.essential.org/1998/am-info/msg01529.html "Barkto incident" http://web.archive.org/web/20040222192500/http://w3.hethmon.com/os2isp/1999/Aug/Msgs/l2w15889.html "barkto again". I wonder why they're not employing spam bots like was possible even in the 80s on USENET. By the by, I love how they all contradict IBM’s letter, which shows contradictions in OOXML to existing standards.

I guess if they repeat it enough and try and try again…

History of MS Shilling, http://www.inlumineconsulting.com:8080/website/msft.shilling.html
http://lists.essential.org/1998/am-info/msg01529.html “Barkto incident”
http://web.archive.org/web/20040222192500/http://w3.hethmon.com/os2isp/1999/Aug/Msgs/l2w15889.html “barkto again”.

I wonder why they’re not employing spam bots like was possible even in the 80s on USENET.

]]> By: gpl1 http://techrights.org/2007/06/19/iso-spam-ooxml/comment-page-1/#comment-991 gpl1 Wed, 20 Jun 2007 03:32:11 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2007/06/19/iso-spam-ooxml/#comment-991 It's absolutely hilarious to read like 20 letters in a row with the exact same three paragraphs. Plagiarism? or astroturfing?-- what will the people who will actually read these letters to the US standards body think? They're not doing so well at all at the Canadian standards body though, which makes me happy. Though maybe we'll see some more form letters show up, after this post. (BTW--the 'billions of existing documents; line that all the form letters use--the same line that the Standards Council of Canada used in its foreward paragraph. Odd, you'd almost think one PR firm is co-ordinating that.) "About Open XML More and more organizations around the world are interested in achieving document processing interoperability, and creating digital archives using open formats. Office Open XML provides a common open standard for word-processing documents, presentations, and spreadsheets that can be freely implemented across multiple applications and platforms. The standard enables the continued use of BILLIONS of existing documents and promotes document processing interoperability." http://www.scc.ca/en/news_events/pr/pr_details_220.shtml It’s absolutely hilarious to read like 20 letters in a row with the exact same three paragraphs. Plagiarism? or astroturfing?– what will the people who will actually read these letters to the US standards body think?

They’re not doing so well at all at the Canadian standards body though, which makes me happy. Though maybe we’ll see some more form letters show up, after this post.

(BTW–the ‘billions of existing documents; line that all the form letters use–the same line that the Standards Council of Canada used in its foreward paragraph. Odd, you’d almost think one PR firm is co-ordinating that.)

“About Open XML

More and more organizations around the world are interested in achieving document processing interoperability, and creating digital archives using open formats. Office Open XML provides a common open standard for word-processing documents, presentations, and spreadsheets that can be freely implemented across multiple applications and platforms. The standard enables the continued use of BILLIONS of existing documents and promotes document processing interoperability.”

http://www.scc.ca/en/news_events/pr/pr_details_220.shtml

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