OOXML Incidents Index: From [H]ungary to [J]ordan
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-05-26 06:27:48 UTC
- Modified: 2008-05-26 11:00:58 UTC
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According to the
following new article, we have until Thursday to ensure more national bodies
join the voice of
South Africa with its formal complaint.
South Africa is the first country to have made public its appeal. Other national standards bodies that took part have until May 29 to appeal the decision.
You can help by contacting your standards body and encouraging it to endorse the message from South Africa. We continue to share past incidents, country by country.
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Hungary (Phone: +36 1 456 68 00):
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Iceland (Phone: +354 520 71 50):
India (Phone: +91 11 23 23 79 91):
- OOXML in India: Bullying of Critics, Even Professors
- Microsoft Goes Viral in Kerala, the Land of Free Software
- OOXML Protests Are Back, Lots of ODF FUD Seen Abound (Updatedx2)
- India's Continued Fight for Standards and Against OOXML
- Wipro, Infosys and TCS Under Fire for Blind, Self-serving Endorsement of Monopolisation
- Microsoft's Latest Smear Campaign: 'Disobedient' Chairperson in India Targeted
- Despite Rigging, The World's Population Said “No” to OOXML
- When You Know That Microsoft Has Formally Hijacked Open Source
- Microsoft's Letters from the 'Dead' Tactics Return (Yet Again)
- Clannish Grouping Makes Tribal Elections (ISO and OOXML)
- Pro-OOXML Tactic #99: When You Lose, Start Bullying
- Standards for Uncertainty and Moving Goalposts
- Behind the OOXML “No” Vote in India Remains a Fiasco
- Who Voted “Yes” for OOXML in India Anyway?
- Keeping Abreast of Microsoft's Latest Lies About OOXML
- OOXML Defeated Easily in India; Microsoft in Hot Water in New Zealand Over Smear Campaign
- More Microsoft OOXML Dirty Tricks: PR Lies
- Bill Gates Greases Up Politicians Again, Just Ahead of OOXML Vote
- Technical Flaws in OOXML and Technical Flaws in ISO (When Subjected to Sheer Abuse)
- Microsoft's OOXML Scandal in India and the Legal Issues Ahead
- Microsoft May Have Bribed India for OOXML Pressure
- Microsoft's “Letters from the Dead” Tactic Isn't Quite Dead Yet
- OOXML Has Software Patent Problems; Iffy OOXML Business in India Again
- Microsoft's OOXML Cornered by Antitrust Regulators, Call for Harmonisation
- When They Don't Want Microsoft, Microsoft Will Pay Them to Want It...
- OpenDocument Wins While Microsoft Spins
- How Microsoft Operates in China and Parts of Asia
- Microsoft Puppet (Frost & Sullivan) Praises 'Intellectual Property', Novell's Patent Deal
- More Arrogance Found in OOXML
- A Reader's Take on the Dangers of Software Patents and Microsoft's Role
- Quick Mention: The OOXML Scam Begins to Bear Fruit
- ISO Reform Demanded, OpenISO Formed by Norbert Bollow (Updated)
- The Second ”O” in OOXML Stands for ”Oligarchy”, Not ”Open”
- The Latest News on the Microsoft OOXML Fiasco (Updated)
- Dissecting Microsoft's OOXML/ODF Strategy
- OOXML Watch: Sweden's OOXML Fiasco Representative of the Norm?
- OOXML 'Corruption Train' Arriving at Sweden (Updated)
- OOXML: Security Flaw Found, Microsoft Lies About It Again, African Revolt Against It, and ISO in Great Danger
- Steve Ballmer Makes Phonecalls to Flip Those Votes in Favour of Monopoly (Updated: China Says “NO”)
- OOXML: Deception, Lies, FUD, Apple & Germany Become Microsoft Tools
- ODF/OOXML Watch: Brazil and India Say “No” to OOXML, Microsoft Lobbying Intensified (Updated)
- Playing a Standards War Using the Language of Money
- Things Might Get Litigious as Microsoft Gets Aggressive and ISO 'Bought Out'
- Are Real Standards Hard to Come By When Money is Involved? (Updated)
- Finland and New Zealand's Fight Against Vendor Lockin; IBM Set to Release Lotus 8 with ODF Support on Friday
- Document Formats Watch -- “For the Love of God, Think about the Children (and Consumers)”
- Has OOXML 'Funny Business' Already Reached Australia and India?
- India to Weigh in on Real Standards and 'Monopoly Enablers'
- More Document Formats Coverage (Updatedx2)
- More Pseudo-grassroots Support for OOXML, Novell Passively Accepts It (Updated)
A reader from India added:
Indonesia (Phone: +62 21 574 70 43-44):
Iran (Phone: +98 261 280 60 31-8):
Iraq (Phone: +964 1 776 19 80):
Ireland (Phone: +353 1 807 38 00):
Israel (Phone: +972 3 646 51 00):
Italy (Phone: +39 02 70 02 41):
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Jamaica (Phone: +1 876 926 31 40-5):
Japan (Phone: +81 3 35 01 94 71):
- OOXML Roundup: Complaints, Competition, Cracks and Complacency
- Microsoft OOXML Pollutes More Than Just Document Formats
- A Look Back at OOXML BRM, Stacking, ISO's Admission of Failure
- How Microsoft Operates in China and Parts of Asia
- Korea Chooses OpenDocument Format
- OOXML? Not Any Time Soon, Says Sutor.
- It's OpenDocument All the Way for Holland (and Other Office Suites News)
- Australia Changes Mind on OOXML, Brazil and New Zealand Explain Why OOXML is Bad
- Lobbying for OOXML in Africa, Which Apparently Dislikes Microsoft and Novell
- OOXML/ODF Watch: FFII's Pieter Hintjens, Sun's Michael Brauer, and IBM's Bob Sutor
- India to Weigh in on Real Standards and 'Monopoly Enablers'
- Microsoft Loses Its Battle for Lock-in (OOXML) in South Africa (Updated)
- Japan Chooses Openness, FSF Challenges OOXML, and South Africa to Decide on Document Formats (Corrected+Updated)
- TurboLinux Joins Hands with Microsoft on OOXML (Updated)
Jordan (Phone: +962 6 568 03 16):
Let's share the knowledge about misconduct and address it to ensure it never repeats itself.
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Comments
Paolo Benvenuto
2008-05-27 13:37:44
A functionary told me the following:
1. Italy abstained in the 29500 votation because couldn't get a consensus among its members about the MS standard. Actually UNISO members are equally distribuited among Microsoft's and IBM's areas, and for this reason Italy voted "abstained".
2. They don't know anything about South Africa complain. The persons told me that from the ISO they haven't received any communication yet about that.
3. Anyway, because of the abstain cast, UNISO isn't going to say nothing in this stuff.
4. UNISO is participating in the process of getting a better 29500 standard.
5. Italian government hasn't expressed anything about the whole question, delegating totally to UNISO.
I think we should at least ask our government to express Italy's point of view about this question.
Roy Schestowitz
2008-05-27 15:57:23
Microsoft went out of its way to characterise it as an IBM vs Microsoft case.