10.02.08
Posted in Africa, Microsoft, Office Suites, Open XML, OpenDocument, OpenOffice at 8:09 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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W e have presented more than enough evidence to accuse Microsoft of rigging votes, bribing, manipulating, bullying, lying, blackmailing and so forth. It should not be disputed that Microsoft behaved in the most appalling of ways, so even Standard Norway, whose protest is shown at the top, simply cannot forget how it got nailed by Microsoft shenanigans. In response, there is a …
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10.01.08
Posted in Europe, ISO, Microsoft, Open XML, OpenDocument at 10:39 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Y esterday we posted a couple of updates on the OOXML and ODF situation . OOXML’s inertia seems to be coming mainly from abuse and manipulation , whereas ODF is naturally adopted at the highest of levels and scopes, including entire countries.
A response has arrived from the British government suggesting that many substantiated suspicions about National Archives may have been …
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09.14.08
Posted in ISO, Novell, Open XML, Standard at 5:52 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
From the Campaign for Document Freedom
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ord on the street in the news is that CONSEGI 2008 [ 1 , 2 ] has just gained some more steam with the addition of another protester .
The Dominion of British West Florida Joins Brazil, South Africa, Venezuela, Ecuador, Cuba, and Paraguay in condemning the actions of the ISO/IEC in rejecting the appeals lodged against the approval of …
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09.07.08
Posted in Formats, ISO, Microsoft, Open XML, OpenDocument at 2:17 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
H ere is a new practical example of the harms of Microsoft’s OOXML.
Recently I was caught with three versions of a document to which I needed to make some small changes. I had a printed version, a version saved out of Microsoft Office 2007 (for the record, I made that document on someone else’s computer), and a version saved in the Open Document format (ODF). Unfortunately, where …
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09.01.08
Posted in America, ISO, Microsoft, Open XML, Security, Standard at 8:24 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Starting a new chapter, without 7,000+ pages of OOXML
T he previous post about software patents showed a company playing hardball and breaking the law — all in the name of junk patents. Microsoft too has played such games. The following article about OOXML (and its obligatory corruption brings back memories of blackmail for software patents in Denmark.
Last time we had …
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08.14.08
Posted in Europe, Free/Libre Software, IBM, Microsoft, Novell, Open XML, OpenDocument, OpenOffice at 8:30 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
…While another state officially moves to OOo/ODF
N ovell supports OOXML simply because it's contractually obliged to do so . It made itself a slave of Microsoft in exchange for money. Watch what Novell’s Web site said about data formats before signing the deal that nuked criticism of Microsoft (Web pages disappeared or got replaced).
From the site, like it used to be until ca. …
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08.05.08
Posted in Free/Libre Software, FSF, GPL, ISO, Law, Microsoft, Open XML at 9:31 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
S everal months ago, thanks to the SFLC it was shown that OOXML is not suitable for implementation by Microsoft's #1 competitor . A solicitor specialising in Free/open source software, Brendan Scott, has taken a look at Microsoft’s reassurances and formal licence, but he is not convinced much has changed. Loose ends remain in the OOXML OSP .
One of the reasons that the GPL …
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07.17.08
Posted in America, Microsoft, Open XML, OpenDocument at 1:31 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Bad behaviour takes no summer vacation
S ome observers might still remember how Microsoft tried to intercept Brazil's appeal . It’s even more difficult to forget how Microsoft involved presidents of several countries , not to mention possible evidence of back-room deals that involved the big software vendors . Hewlett-Packard intervened too at the last minute .
Now comes this …
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